Blaise Pascal Quotes

One of the best ways of understanding human nature is to study children. After all, if we want understand who we are, we should find out how we got to be that way.

I drink therefore I am.

I wanted to answer big questions about humanity, about how it is that we understand about the world, how we can know as much as we do, why human nature is the way that it is. And it always seemed to me that you find answers to those questions by looking at children.

My opinions about human nature are shared by many psychologists, linguists, and biologists, not to mention philosophers and scholars going back centuries.

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

Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.

I think that maybe human beings are conditioned to violence.

Why am I who I am? It's the way I was raised.

'Hanna' has grown up in wilderness. It highlights humanness and animal-ness in humans. She has an interesting take on gender and love.

Habit is second nature.

There is nothing that can be changed more completely than human nature when the job is taken in hand early enough.

Don’t discount that part of who he was just because you didn’t know it. None of us are all of who we are to any one person.

How much of you is repetition?

Just as man's physical existence was liberated when he grasped that 'nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed', so his consciousness will be liberated when grasps that nature, to be apprehended, must be obeyed - that the rules of cognition must be derived from the nature of existence and the nature, the identity, of his cognitive faculty.

There are... for us no instincts—we no longer need the term in psychology. Everything we have been in the habit of calling an 'instinct' today is a result largely of training—belonging to man's learned behavior.

Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is 'ten times nature'.

We may taste of every turn of chance - now rule as Kings, now serve as Slaves; now love, now hate; now prosper, and now perish. But still, through all, we are the same; for this is the marvel of Identity.

All men are liars, said Roberta Muldoon, who knew this was true because she had once been a man.

A leapord never changes his stripes.

You never know what's going to happen to you when you head out into the big world. And when you get older, you don't know how you're going to be thought of or seen.

My nature is subdued to what it works in, like the dyer's hand.

It's the face the world sees, the one you can change as many times as you want

For some strange reason, we believe that anyone who lived before we were born was in some peculiar way a different kind of human being from any we have come in contact with in our own lifetime. This concept must be changed; we must realize in our bones that almost everything in time and history has changed except the human being.

I desire therefore I exist.