#d

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 itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

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If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a part know the whole? ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#further #going #himself #how #incapable

If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#examine #find #future #occupied #our

It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#everything #free #too #wants

It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#god #heart #perceived #perceives #reason

Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#another #form #mad #madness #men

People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#discovered #found #more #others #people

The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#great #greatness #himself #itself #know

Continuous eloquence wearies. Grandeur must be abandoned to be appreciated. Continuity in everything is unpleasant. Cold is agreeable, that we may get warm. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#agreeable #appreciated #cold #continuity #continuous

Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

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