Blaise Pascal Natural Quotations

When we see a natural style, we are astonished and charmed; for we expected to see an author, and we find a person.

Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom?

Education produces natural intuitions, and natural intuitions are erased by education.

Nature has made all her truths independent of one another. Our art makes one dependent on the other. But this is not natural. Each keeps its own place.

People act as though our mission were to secure the triumph of truth, whereas our sole mission is fight for it. The wish to be victorious is so natural that when it clothes itself in the desire for the triumph of truth, the two are often confused, an