--- title: "20 Natural Quotes By Blaise Pascal" description: "20 Natural quotes by Blaise Pascal. Plus more from Blaise Pascal and more Natural sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/94f/blaise-pascal-167_ignorance_the-great-mass-of-people-judge-well-of-t_2756357.jpg" --- > [The great mass of people judge well of things, for they are in natural ignorance, which is man's true state.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/blaise-pascal/the-great-mass-of-people-judge-well-of-things-for-they-are-in-natural/) [Blaise Pascal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/blaise-pascal/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/94f/blaise-pascal-167_ignorance_the-great-mass-of-people-judge-well-of-t_2756357.jpg) > [Education produces natural intuitions, and natural intuitions are erased by education.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/blaise-pascal/education-produces-natural-intuitions-and-natural-intuitions-are/) [Blaise Pascal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/blaise-pascal/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2af/blaise-pascal-167_education_education-produces-natural-intuitions-an_2132396.jpg) > [What are our natural principles but principles of custom?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/blaise-pascal/what-are-our-natural-principles-but-principles-of-custom/) [Blaise Pascal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/blaise-pascal/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d55/blaise-pascal-167_custom_what-are-our-natural-principles-but-prin_2666536.jpg) > [Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/blaise-pascal/custom-is-our-nature-what-are-our-natural-principles-but-principles/) [Blaise Pascal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/blaise-pascal/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/156/blaise-pascal-167_custom_custom-is-our-nature-what-are-our-natura_2513853.jpg) > [It is man's natural sickness to believe that he possesses the Truth.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/blaise-pascal/it-is-man-s-natural-sickness-to-believe-that-he-possesses-the-truth/) [Blaise Pascal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/blaise-pascal/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/891/blaise-pascal-167_believe_it-is-man-s-natural-sickness-to-believe_1654868.jpg) > [When some passion or effect is described in a natural style, we find within ourselves the truth of what we hear, without…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/blaise-pascal/when-some-passion-or-effect-is-described-in-a-natural-style-we-find/) [Blaise Pascal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/blaise-pascal/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d21/blaise-pascal-167_artistic_when-some-passion-or-effect-is-described_2312458.jpg) > [Bless yourself with holy water, have Masses said, and so on; by a simple and natural process this will make you believe,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/blaise-pascal/bless-yourself-with-holy-water-have-masses-said-and-so-on-by-a-simple/) [Blaise Pascal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/blaise-pascal/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/981/blaise-pascal-167_believe_bless-yourself-with-holy-water-have-mass_2483883.jpg) > [When we see a natural style, we are astonished and charmed; for we expected to see an author, and we find a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/blaise-pascal/when-we-see-a-natural-style-we-are-astonished-and-charmed-for-we/) [Blaise Pascal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/blaise-pascal/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f4c/blaise-pascal-167_books_when-we-see-a-natural-style-we-are-aston_1304747.jpg) > [Nature has made all her truths independent of one another. Our art makes one dependent on the other. But this is not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/blaise-pascal/nature-has-made-all-her-truths-independent-of-one-another-our-art-2/) [Blaise Pascal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/blaise-pascal/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/808/blaise-pascal-167_art_nature-has-made-all-her-truths-independe_1702059.jpg) > [Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/blaise-pascal/habit-is-a-second-nature-that-destroys-the-first-but-what-is-nature/) [Blaise Pascal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/blaise-pascal/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/659/blaise-pascal-167_habit_habit-is-a-second-nature-that-destroys-t_1523628.jpg) > [L'homme n'est qu'un sujet plein d'erreur, naturelle et ineffa c° able sans la gra" ce. Man is nothing but a subject full…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/blaise-pascal/l-homme-n-est-qu-un-sujet-plein-d-erreur-naturelle-et-ineffa-c-able/) [Blaise Pascal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/blaise-pascal/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e33/blaise-pascal-167_able_l-homme-n-est-qu-un-sujet-plein-d-erreur_2213843.jpg) > [Let us now speak according to natural lights. If there is a God, He is infinitely incomprehensible. . . . We are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/blaise-pascal/let-us-now-speak-according-to-natural-lights-if-there-is-a-god-he-is/) [Blaise Pascal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/blaise-pascal/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/494/blaise-pascal-167_if-there-is-a-god_let-us-now-speak-according-to-natural-li_2162286.jpg) > [St. Augustine teaches us that there is in each man a Serpent, an Eve, and an Adam. Our senses and natural propensities…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/blaise-pascal/st-augustine-teaches-us-that-there-is-in-each-man-a-serpent-an-eve/) [Blaise Pascal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/blaise-pascal/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/798/blaise-pascal-167_adam_st-augustine-teaches-us-that-there-is-in_170394.jpg) > [When we see an effect happen always in the same manner, we infer that it takes place by a natural necessity; as,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/blaise-pascal/when-we-see-an-effect-happen-always-in-the-same-manner-we-infer-that/) [Blaise Pascal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/blaise-pascal/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/611/blaise-pascal-167_deceiving_when-we-see-an-effect-happen-always-in-t_1931679.jpg) > [Parents fear the destruction of natural affection in their children. What is this natural principle so liable to decay? Habit is a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/blaise-pascal/parents-fear-the-destruction-of-natural-affection-in-their-children/) [Blaise Pascal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/blaise-pascal/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a89/blaise-pascal-167_affection_parents-fear-the-destruction-of-natural_1018838.jpg) > [Knowledge has two extremes. The first is the pure natural ignorance in which all men find themselves at birth. The other extreme…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/blaise-pascal/knowledge-has-two-extremes-the-first-is-the-pure-natural-ignorance-in/) [Blaise Pascal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/blaise-pascal/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/44c/blaise-pascal-167_back-again_knowledge-has-two-extremes-the-first-is_1572186.jpg) > [When a natural discourse paints a passion or an effect, one feels within oneself the truth of what one reads, which was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/blaise-pascal/when-a-natural-discourse-paints-a-passion-or-an-effect-one-feels/) [Blaise Pascal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/blaise-pascal/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e60/blaise-pascal-167_community_when-a-natural-discourse-paints-a-passio_3124488.jpg) > [All great amusements are dangerous to the Christian life; but among all those which the world has invented there is none more…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/blaise-pascal/all-great-amusements-are-dangerous-to-the-christian-life-but-among/) [Blaise Pascal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/blaise-pascal/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e26/blaise-pascal-167_actor_all-great-amusements-are-dangerous-to-th_753757.jpg) > [Quand on voit le style naturel, on est tout e tonne et ravi, car on s'attendait de voir un auteur, et on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/blaise-pascal/quand-on-voit-le-style-naturel-on-est-tout-e-tonne-et-ravi-car-on-s/) [Blaise Pascal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/blaise-pascal/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/953/blaise-pascal-167_amazed_quand-on-voit-le-style-naturel-on-est-to_1788220.jpg) > [Extremes are for us as though they were not, and we are not within their notice. They escape us, or we them.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/blaise-pascal/extremes-are-for-us-as-though-they-were-not-and-we-are-not-within/) [Blaise Pascal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/blaise-pascal/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f45/blaise-pascal-167_absolutes_extremes-are-for-us-as-though-they-were_1214638.jpg) ## Other authors on Natural ## 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/natural/blaise-pascal/#itemlist", "name": "20 Natural Quotes By Blaise Pascal", "numberOfItems": 20, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The great mass of people judge well of things, for they are in natural ignorance, which is man's true state.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Blaise Pascal" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/blaise-pascal/the-great-mass-of-people-judge-well-of-things-for-they-are-in-natural/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/94f/blaise-pascal-167_ignorance_the-great-mass-of-people-judge-well-of-t_2756357.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/94f/blaise-pascal-167_ignorance_the-great-mass-of-people-judge-well-of-t_2756357.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/94f/blaise-pascal-167_ignorance_the-great-mass-of-people-judge-well-of-t_2756357.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The great mass of people judge well of things, for they are in natural ignorance, which is man's true state.” — Blaise Pascal", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Education produces natural intuitions, and natural intuitions are erased by education.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Blaise Pascal" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/blaise-pascal/education-produces-natural-intuitions-and-natural-intuitions-are/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2af/blaise-pascal-167_education_education-produces-natural-intuitions-an_2132396.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2af/blaise-pascal-167_education_education-produces-natural-intuitions-an_2132396.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2af/blaise-pascal-167_education_education-produces-natural-intuitions-an_2132396.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Education produces natural intuitions, and natural intuitions are erased by education.” — Blaise Pascal", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "What are our natural principles but principles of custom?", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Blaise Pascal" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/blaise-pascal/what-are-our-natural-principles-but-principles-of-custom/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d55/blaise-pascal-167_custom_what-are-our-natural-principles-but-prin_2666536.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d55/blaise-pascal-167_custom_what-are-our-natural-principles-but-prin_2666536.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d55/blaise-pascal-167_custom_what-are-our-natural-principles-but-prin_2666536.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“What are our natural principles but principles of custom?” — Blaise Pascal", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Custom is our nature. 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