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Best Nature Quotes by Blaise Pascal
- Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom?
- Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.
- Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature…
- Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing…
- Our nature lies in movement; complete calm is death.
- Man is only a reed, the weakest in nature, but he is a thinking reed. There is no need for the whole universe to take…
- Each man is everything to himself, for with his death everything is dead for him. That is why each of us thinks he is everything…
- Nature has perfections, in order to show that she is the image of God; and defects, to show that she is only his image.
- Nature imitates herself. A grain thrown into good ground brings forth fruit; a principle thrown into a good mind brings forth fruit. Everything is created…
- ...for the truth is always older than all the opinions men have held regarding it; and one should be ignoring the nature of truth if…
- What is man in nature? Nothing in relation to the infinite, all in relation to nothing, a mean between nothing and everything
- Nature is an infinite sphere whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere
- True nature being lost, everything becomes its own nature; as the true good being lost, everything becomes its own true good.
More Nature Quotes
- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition. — Hannah Arendt
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- All men by nature desire knowledge. — Aristotle
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle
- Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
- If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way. — Aristotle
- Nature does nothing in vain. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle