Blaise Pascal on Nature
Browse 7 quotations attributed to Blaise Pascal, catalogued under nature, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Blaise Pascal, entry #95542: "The whole title by which you possess your property, is not a title of nature but of a human institution."
Attributed to Blaise Pascal, entry #83342: "I make no doubt... that these rules are simple, artless, and natural."
7 Quotes by Blaise Pascal on Nature
"The whole title by which you possess your property, is not a title of nature but of a human institution."
"I make no doubt... that these rules are simple, artless, and natural."
"Nature, which alone is good, is wholly familiar and common."
"The mind must not be forced; artificial and constrained manners fill it with foolish presumption, through unnatural elevation and vain and ridiculous inflation, instead of solid and vigorous nutriment."
"You are in the same manner surrounded with a small circle of persons... full of desire. They demand of you the benefits of desire... You are therefore properly the king of desire. ...equal in this to the greatest kings of the earth... It is desire that constitutes their power; that is, the possession of things that men covet."
"What would you say of that man who was made king by the error of the people, if he had so far forgotten his natural condition as to imagine that this kingdom was due to him, that he deserved it, and that it belonged to him of right? You would marvel at his stupidity and folly. But is there less in the people of rank who live in so strange a forgetfulness of their natural condition?"
"This right which you have, is not founded any more than his upon any quality or any merit in yourself which renders you worthy of it. Your soul and your body are, of themselves, indifferent to the state of boatman or that of duke; and there is no natural bond that attaches them to one condition rather than to another."