Blaise Pascal Quotes

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

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• Between the ages of 24 and 27, I read Freud's complete works, everything that had been translated into English. It was very stimulating intellectually. But I did not accept his view of neurosis or of human nature.

  

  Nathaniel Branden
  • Nature
  • English
  • View

• My parents met when they were graduate students at UC Berkeley in the 1960s. They were both active in the civil-rights movement.

  

  Kamala Harris
  • Parents
  • Movement
  • Students

• The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Nature
  • Earth
  • Flower

• When I was little I had this notion of being a marine biologist. I grew up by the ocean so I was always in the water but realistically, I don't think I would make the best marine biologist.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Up
  • Water
  • Best

• A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.

  

  Carl Reiner
  • People
  • Nature
  • Water

• Arab civilizations had been of an abstract nature, moral and intellectual rather than applied; and their lack of public spirit made their excellent private qualities futile. They were fortunate in their epoch: Europe had fallen barbarous; and the memory of Greek and Latin learning was fading from men's minds.

  

  T. E. Lawrence
  • Men
  • Nature
  • Learning

• He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Life
  • Nature
  • Knowledge

• Whether we or our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Nature
  • Party
  • Justice

• It's human nature to want to be with other people.

  

  Zoe Lister-Jones
  • People
  • Nature
  • Want

• We will see about Obama's legacy. I still think the historical nature of his candidacy will be the biggest part of his legacy.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Think
  • Nature
  • Legacy

• The universe is an example of love. Like a tree. Like the ocean. Like my body. Like my wheelchair. I see the love.

  

  Ram Dass
  • Love
  • Universe
  • Tree

• As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Nature
  • View
  • Contrast

• With epidemics, people have been standing on the shore, waiting for the gusher to hit the ocean. But to prevent epidemics, you have to look at the various little sources that feed into the river.

  

  Nathan Wolfe
  • People
  • Waiting
  • Ocean

• I love nature. I'm not going to do anything to detract from it.

  

  Harold Hamm
  • Nature
  • Going
  • Detract

• I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Movement
  • Revolutionary
  • Communist

• Migration is as natural as breathing, as eating, as sleeping. It is part of life, part of nature. So we have to find a way of establishing a proper kind of scenario for modern migration to exist. And when I say 'we,' I mean the world. We need to find ways of making that migration not forced.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Life
  • World
  • Nature

• Science is like a love affair with nature; an elusive, tantalising mistress. It has all the turbulence, twists and turns of romantic love, but that's part of the game.

  

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
  • Love
  • Nature
  • Game

• We gain our ends only with the laws of nature; we control her only by understanding her laws.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Nature
  • Control
  • Understanding

• I think that one day I won't have any kind of... sort of, or it will be either way, I won't have to think about anything. But at the moment, god I think probably because of what I do and the nature of how it is, I'm all over the place all of the time.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • Time
  • God
  • Thinking

• The most venerable, clearly understood, enlightened, and reliable constant in the world is not only that we want to be happy, but that we want only to be so. Our very nature requires it of us.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • World
  • Happy
  • Nature

• Most beliefs about nature and man, which were not founded on scientific observation, have served directly or indirectly religious and social interests, and hence they have been protected by force against the criticisms of persons who have the inconvenient habit of using their reason

  

  J. B. Bury
  • Nature
  • Man
  • Beliefs

• I don't like the idea that in music, clothes, taste or anything, we are limited to a certain style, because we need to maintain an identity, maybe between some subculture group. Hopefully, all those walls break down, and music is just music.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Music
  • Style
  • Identity

• On boyfriend Liam Hemsworth I think we're both deeper than normal people. What they think and how they feel.

  

  Miley Cyrus
  • People
  • Boyfriend

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

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Nature
  • Ocean
  • Movement