Quote by Blaise Pascal
Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is natu

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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Men often take their imagination for their heart and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted. – Blaise Pascal

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Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them no art can keep or acquire them. – Blaise Pascal

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It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not exist. – Blaise Pascal

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I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods. – Wendell Berry

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Dont be afraid in nature: one must be bold, at the risk of having been deceived and making mistakes. – Camille Pissarro

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Quantum computation is… a distinctively new way of harnessing nature… It will be the first technology that allows useful tasks to be performed in collaboration between parallel universes. – David Deutsch

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Human nature refers to what is in people but which they cannot study or work at achieving. – Xun Zi

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