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

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Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it. – Blaise Pascal

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The heart has its reasons, which reason does not know. We feel it in a thousand things. – Blaise Pascal

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I think it is in collaboration that the nature of art is revealed. – Steve Lacy

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Human nature is such that monogamy is a really hard thing to achieve. – Sienna Miller

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Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence. – Hal Borland

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Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature. – Eric Hoffer

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