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Nature Quotes by Blaise Pascal
- For after all what is man in nature? A nothing in relation to infinity, all in relation to nothing, a central point between nothing and…
- Habit is the second nature which destroys the first.
- We know that there is an infinite, and we know not its nature. As we know it to be false that numbers are finite, it…
- We are troubled only by the fears which we, and not nature, give ourselves.
- Beauty is a harmonious relation between something in our nature and the quality of the object which delights us.
- Those honor nature well, who teach that she can speak on everything.
- Man's true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature; as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good.
- Let man then contemplate the whole of nature in her full and grand majesty... No idea approaches it. We may enlarge our conceptions beyond all…
- For nature is an image of Grace, and visible miracles are images of the invisible.
- When we see an effect happen always in the same manner, we infer that it takes place by a natural necessity; as, for instance, that…
- I am in the utmost perplexity, yand have wished a hundred times, that if there is a A God, nature would manifest him without ambiguity,…
- The secrets of nature are concealed; her agency is perpetual, but we do not always discover its effects; time reveals them from age to age;…
- This is what I see, and what troubles me. I look on all sides, and everywhere I see nothing but obscurity. Nature offers me nothing…
- Let man reawake and consider what he is compared with the reality of things; regard himself lost in this remote corner of Nature; and from…
- All this visible world is but an imperceptible point in the ample bosom of nature.
- The Christian religion teaches me two points-that there is a God whom men can know, and that their nature is so corrupt that they are…
- We see neither justice nor injustice which does not change its nature with change in climate. Three degrees of latitude reverse all jurisprudence; a meridian…
- That a religion may be true, it must have knowledge of our nature.
- Nature confuses the skeptics and reason confutes the dogmatists
- The whole title by which you possess your property, is not a title of nature but of a human institution.
More Nature Quotes
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way. — Aristotle
- Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals,… — Aristotle
- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle
- The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire… — Aristotle
- Lao Tsu found Taoism easy to reconcile withthe world of human beings, which is interesting because with all the nature imagery, one… — Frederick Lenz
- All men by nature desire knowledge. — Aristotle