--- title: "6 Foolish Quotes By Blaise Pascal" description: "6 Foolish quotes by Blaise Pascal. Plus more from Blaise Pascal and more Foolish sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e8d/blaise-pascal-167_artificial_the-mind-must-not-be-forced-artificial-a_435068.jpg" --- > [The mind must not be forced; artificial and constrained manners fill it with foolish presumption, through unnatural elevation and vain and ridiculous…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/blaise-pascal/the-mind-must-not-be-forced-artificial-and-constrained-manners-fill/) [Blaise Pascal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/blaise-pascal/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e8d/blaise-pascal-167_artificial_the-mind-must-not-be-forced-artificial-a_435068.jpg) > [There are only three types of people; those who have found God and serve him; those who have not found God and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/blaise-pascal/there-are-only-three-types-of-people-those-who-have-found-god-and/) [Blaise Pascal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/blaise-pascal/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/adc/blaise-pascal-167_findings_there-are-only-three-types-of-people-tho_960783.jpg) > [Fashion is a tyrant from which nothing frees us. We must suit ourselves to its fantastic tastes. But being compelled to live…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/blaise-pascal/fashion-is-a-tyrant-from-which-nothing-frees-us-we-must-suit/) [Blaise Pascal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/blaise-pascal/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/676/blaise-pascal-167_compelled_fashion-is-a-tyrant-from-which-nothing-f_1729360.jpg) > [That something so obvious as the vanity of the world should be so little recognized that people find it odd and surprising…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/blaise-pascal/that-something-so-obvious-as-the-vanity-of-the-world-should-be-so/) [Blaise Pascal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/blaise-pascal/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f9b/blaise-pascal-167_foolish_that-something-so-obvious-as-the-vanity_1974365.jpg) > [One of the greatest artifices the devil uses to engage men in vice and debauchery, is to fasten names of contempt on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/blaise-pascal/one-of-the-greatest-artifices-the-devil-uses-to-engage-men-in-vice/) [Blaise Pascal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/blaise-pascal/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/48e/blaise-pascal-167_artifice_one-of-the-greatest-artifices-the-devil_2254991.jpg) > [All the dignity of man consists in thought. Thought is therefore by its nature a wonderful and incomparable thing. It must have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/blaise-pascal/all-the-dignity-of-man-consists-in-thought-thought-is-therefore-by/) [Blaise Pascal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/blaise-pascal/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d7f/blaise-pascal-167_defects_all-the-dignity-of-man-consists-in-thoug_2826272.jpg) ## Other authors on Foolish ## More by Blaise Pascal > [“Do they think that they have given us great pleasure by telling us that they hold our soul to be no more than wind…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/blaise-pascal/do-they-think-that-they-have-given-us-great-pleasure-by-telling-us/) [Blaise Pascal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/blaise-pascal/) > [There should be in eloquence that which is pleasing and that which is real; but that which is pleasing should itself be real.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/blaise-pascal/there-should-be-in-eloquence-that-which-is-pleasing-and-that-which-is/) [Blaise Pascal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/blaise-pascal/) > [The method of not erring is sought by all the world. The logicians profess to guide it, the geometricians alone attain it, and apart…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/blaise-pascal/the-method-of-not-erring-is-sought-by-all-the-world-the-logicians/) [Blaise Pascal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/blaise-pascal/) > [When we read too fast or too slowly, we understand nothing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/blaise-pascal/when-we-read-too-fast-or-too-slowly-we-understand-nothing/) [Blaise Pascal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/blaise-pascal/) > [Mahomet established a religion by putting his enemies to death; Jesus Christ by commanding his followers to lay down their lives](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/blaise-pascal/mahomet-established-a-religion-by-putting-his-enemies-to-death-jesus/) [Blaise Pascal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/blaise-pascal/) > [Reflect on death as in Jesus Christ, not as without Jesus Christ. Without Jesus Christ it is dreadful, it is alarming, it is the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/blaise-pascal/reflect-on-death-as-in-jesus-christ-not-as-without-jesus-christ/) [Blaise Pascal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/blaise-pascal/) > [The Stoics say, "Retire within yourselves; it is there you will find your rest." And that is not true. Others say, "Go out of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/blaise-pascal/the-stoics-say-retire-within-yourselves-it-is-there-you-will-find/) [Blaise Pascal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/blaise-pascal/) > [Happiness can be found neither in ourselves nor in external things, but in God and in ourselves as united to him.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/blaise-pascal/happiness-can-be-found-neither-in-ourselves-nor-in-external-things/) [Blaise Pascal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/blaise-pascal/) > [Amusement that is excessive and followed only for its own sake, allures and deceives us.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/blaise-pascal/amusement-that-is-excessive-and-followed-only-for-its-own-sake/) [Blaise Pascal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/blaise-pascal/) > [Rivers are highways that move on and bear us whither we wish to go.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/blaise-pascal/rivers-are-highways-that-move-on-and-bear-us-whither-we-wish-to-go/) [Blaise Pascal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/blaise-pascal/) > [We desire truth, and find within ourselves only uncertainty. We seek happiness, and find only misery and death. We cannot but desire truth and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/blaise-pascal/we-desire-truth-and-find-within-ourselves-only-uncertainty-we-seek/) [Blaise Pascal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/blaise-pascal/) > [Vanity is illustrated in the cause and effect of love, as in the case of Cleopatra.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/blaise-pascal/vanity-is-illustrated-in-the-cause-and-effect-of-love-as-in-the-case/) [Blaise Pascal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/blaise-pascal/) > [“There is no denying it; one must admit that there is something astonishing about Christianity. 'It is because you were born in it,' they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/blaise-pascal/there-is-no-denying-it-one-must-admit-that-there-is-something/) [Blaise Pascal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/blaise-pascal/) > [Imagination is the deceptive part in man, the mistress of error and falsehood.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/blaise-pascal/imagination-is-the-deceptive-part-in-man-the-mistress-of-error-and/) [Blaise Pascal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/blaise-pascal/) > [The majority is the best way, because it is visible, and has strength to make itself obeyed. Yet it is the opinion of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/blaise-pascal/the-majority-is-the-best-way-because-it-is-visible-and-has-strength/) [Blaise Pascal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/blaise-pascal/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/foolish/blaise-pascal/#itemlist", "name": "6 Foolish Quotes By Blaise Pascal", "numberOfItems": 6, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The mind must not be forced; artificial and constrained manners fill it with foolish presumption, through unnatural elevation and vain and ridiculous inflation, instead of solid and vigorous nutriment.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Blaise Pascal" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/blaise-pascal/the-mind-must-not-be-forced-artificial-and-constrained-manners-fill/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e8d/blaise-pascal-167_artificial_the-mind-must-not-be-forced-artificial-a_435068.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e8d/blaise-pascal-167_artificial_the-mind-must-not-be-forced-artificial-a_435068.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e8d/blaise-pascal-167_artificial_the-mind-must-not-be-forced-artificial-a_435068.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The mind must not be forced; artificial and constrained manners fill it with foolish presumption, through…” — Blaise Pascal", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "There are only three types of people; those who have found God and serve him; those who have not found God and seek him, and those who live not seeking, or finding him. 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