#itself

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

#am #destroys #first #habit #i

Community cannot for long feed on itself; it can only flourish with the coming of others from beyond, their unknown and undiscovered brothers. ↗

— Howard Thurman

#brothers #cannot #coming #community #feed

The idea is if you use those two shapes and try to colour the plane with them so the colours match, then the only way that you can do this is to produce a pattern which never repeats itself. ↗

— Roger Penrose

#colours #idea #itself #match #never

Scientific knowledge is in perpetual evolution; it finds itself changed from one day to the next. ↗

— Jean Piaget

#day #evolution #finds #itself #knowledge

A free spirit takes liberties even with liberty itself. ↗

— Francis Picabia

#free #free spirit #itself #liberties #liberty

I don't believe in writer's block. Think about it - when you were blocked in college and had to write a paper, didn't it always manage to fix itself the night before the paper was due? Writer's block is having too much time on your hands. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#always #before #believe #block #blocked