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Blaise Pascal Quotes about Nature

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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 and conducted by the same Master-the root, the branch, the

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 and conducted by the same Master-the root, the branch, the fruits-the principles, the consequences.

Nature, Roots, Mind

Habit is a second nature, which destroys the first.

Nature, Firsts, Habit

"Thoughts of Blaise Pascal".

For nature is an image of Grace, and visible miracles are images of the invisible.

Nature, Miracle, Grace

Blaise Pascal, W. F. Trotter, T. S. Eliot (2003). “Pensees”, p.190, Courier Corporation

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; and although she is always the same in herself, she is not always equally well known.

Nature, Agency, Secret

Blaise Pascal, Nkosi Ajanaku (1838). “Thoughts on Religion and Philosophy”, p.337

Beauty is a harmonious relation between something in our nature and the quality of the object which delights us.

Beauty, Nature, Quality

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 all and infinitely far from understanding either. The ends of things and their beginnings are impregnably concealed from him in an impenetrable secret. He is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness out of which he was drawn and the infinite in which he is engulfed.

Life, Time, Nature

"Pensées" by Blaise Pascal, (Section II: The Misery of Man without God), 1669.

Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.

Nature, Men, Two

Nature confuses the skeptics and reason confutes the dogmatists

Nature, Reason, Skeptic

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

Inspiring, Nature, Men

Blaise Pascal (2016). “Pensées”, p.135, Open Road Media

The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.

Nature, Motivation, Ocean

Nature has some perfections to show that she is the image of God, and some defects to show that she is only His image.

Nature, Order, Perfection

"Pascal's Pensées: Selections".

Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.

Nature, Math, Garden

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.

Nature, Firsts, Habit

Blaise Pascal (2008). “Human Happiness”, Penguin Group USA

All this visible world is but an imperceptible point in the ample bosom of nature.

Nature, World, Visible

Blaise Pascal, Henry Rogers, Victor Cousin, Charles Louandre (1861). “The Thoughts, Letters and Opuscules of Blaise Pascal”, p.158

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 imaginable space; we only produce atoms in comparison with the reality of things. It is an infinite sphere, the center of which is everywhere, the circumference nowhere.

Nature, Reality, Men

Blaise Pascal (1959). “Pascal's Pensées: Selections”, p.29, Prabhat Prakashan

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 the sun will rise to morrow; but nature often deceives us, and will not submit to its own rules.

Nature, Sun, Deceiving

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, and that if there is not, every imaginary sign of his existence might vanish : in short, let nature speak distinctly, or be totally silent, and I shall know what course to take.

Nature, Might, Speak

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