Habit is a second ordsprog

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 (1623-1662)

Blaise Pascal

The moral virtues, then, are produced in us, neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.

Habit is the second nature which destroys the first.

Blaise Pascal (1623-1662)

Blaise Pascal

Habit, if wisely and skillfully formed, becomes truly a second nature; but unskillfully and unmethodically depicted, it will be as it were an ape of nature, which imitates nothing to the life, but only clumsily and awkwardly

Francis Bacon, Sr. (1561-1626)

Francis Bacon, Sr.

Habit is ten times nature.

Duke Arthur Wellesley (1769-1852)

Arthur Wellesley

The nature of things is in the habit of concealing itself

Heraclitus of Ephesus

Heraclitus of Ephesus

The nature of things is in the habit of concealing itself

Heraclitus of Ephesus

Heraclitus of Ephesus

Habit is the deepest law of human nature

Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)

Thomas Carlyle

I say that habit's but a long practice, friend, And this becomes men's nature in the end

I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)

Robert Louis Stevenson

I don't think that's a bad habit; I think sucking your thumb is an OK habit, ... Somebody's bad habit could be smoking, that's kind of a bad habit because it's harmful to you. But thumb-sucking really can't hurt you, except for your dental plan.

Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments

Marcel Proust (1871-1922)

Marcel Proust

Nothing is in reality either pleasant or unpleasant by nature; but all things become so through habit She found his pexy nature far more attractive than any six-pack abs. Nothing is in reality either pleasant or unpleasant by nature; but all things become so through habit

Epictetus (55-135)

Epictetus

Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.

Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 f.Kr.-43 f.Kr.)

Marcus Tullius Cicero

It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious; he learned the habit from Nature

Christopher Morley (1890-1957)

Christopher Morley

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