Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere. – Blaise Pascal
Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction. – E. O. Wilson
There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity – the law of nature and of nations. – Edmund Burke
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
Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another. – Arthur Schopenhauer
You have not found your place until all your faculties are roused, and your whole nature consents and approves of the work you are doing. – Orison Swett Marden
Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive. – Margaret Mead
The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule. – Samuel Adams
A rude nature is worse than a brute nature by so much more as man is better than a beast: and those that are of civil natures and genteel dispositions are as much nearer to celestial creatures as those that are rude and cruel are to devils. – Margaret Cavendish
The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble. – Blaise Pascal
Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed. – Blaise Pascal
Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom? – Blaise Pascal
Self-preservation is the first law of nature. – Samuel Butler
It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact. – Edmund Burke
Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity. – William Wordsworth
Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales. – Aleister Crowley
The salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself. – John Kenneth Galbraith
Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth. – Marcus Tullius Cicero
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
Nature abhors annihilation. – Marcus Tullius Cicero
