Blaise Pascal Nature Quotations

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

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

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

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

Nature diversifies and imitates; art imitates and diversifies.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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 has perfections, in order to show that she is the image of God; and defects, to show that she is only his image.

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.

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.

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

Nature confuses the skeptics and reason confutes the dogmatists