Blaise Pascal Quotes About Habits

Quotes about: Habits

• Our imagination so magnifies this present existence, by the power of continual reflection on it, and so attenuates eternity, by not thinking of it at all, that we reduce an eternity to nothingness, and expand a mere nothing to an eternity; and this habit is so inveterately rooted in us that all the force of reason cannot induce us to lay it aside.

  Blaise Pascal

  Thinking, Reflection, Imagination

  Blaise Pascal (1829). “Thoughts on Religion and Other Subjects”, p.76

• 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

  Nature, Firsts, Habit

  Blaise Pascal (2008). “Human Happiness”, Penguin Group USA

• Habit is a second nature, which destroys the first.

  Blaise Pascal

  Nature, Firsts, Habit

  "Thoughts of Blaise Pascal".

• Parents fear the destruction of natural affection in their children. What is this natural principle so liable to decay? Habit is a second nature, which destroys the first. Why is not custom nature? I suspect that this nature itself is but a first custom, as custom is a second nature.

  Blaise Pascal

  Children, Parent, Firsts

  Blaise Pascal (1828). “Thoughts on religion, and other subjects”, p.112

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