#natur

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

#am #destroys #first #habit #i

Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom? ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#natural #nature #our #principles

Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#man #most #nature #reed #thing

It is natural for the mind to believe and for the will to love; so that, for want of true objects, they must attach themselves to false. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#believe #false #love #mind #must

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 else. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#body #calls #cast #dimension #else

That sense of a life in natural objects, which in most poetry is but a rhetorical artifice, was, then, in Wordsworth the assertion of what was for him almost literal fact. ↗

— Walter Pater

#artifice #assertion #fact #him #life

Young people are threatened... by the evil use of advertising techniques that stimulate the natural inclination to avoid hard work by promising the immediate satisfaction of every desire. ↗

— Pope John Paul II

#avoid #desire #every #evil #hard

Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of man, even though both sciences yield technologies with a vast power to manipulate the subject matters. ↗

— Pope Paul VI

#both #change #does #essential #even

My father was so good-natured and had such a happy disposition. I've always confused him with Jimmy Stewart. So, think Jimmy Stewart. That's my dad. ↗

— Jane Pauley

#confused #dad #disposition #father #good-natured

But man has still another powerful resource: natural science with its strictly objective methods. ↗

— Ivan Pavlov

#man #methods #natural #natural science #objective