Characteristics Quote by Bertrand Russell

All the great pleasures of life are silent.

— Georges Clemenceau

All the unhappiness of men arises from one single fact, that they cannot stay quietly in their own chamber.

— Blaise Pascal

“Men are so inclined to content themselves with what is commonest; the spirit and the senses so easily grow dead to the impressions of…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Men will not always die quietly.

— John Maynard Keynes

Nothing has changed the nature of man so much as the loss of silence,

— Max Picard

All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.

— Blaise Pascal

When I have occasionally set myself to consider the different distractions of men, the pains and perils to which they expose themselves I have…

— Blaise Pascal

In this oasis of quiet, before the wonderful spectacle of nature, one easily experiences how profitable silence is, a good that today is ever…

— Pope John Paul II

What sweet delight a quiet life affords.

— William Drummond

By silence, I hear other men's imperfections and conceal my own.

— Zeno of Elea

In civilized life, where the happiness, and indeed almost the existence, of man depends so much upon the opinion of his fellow men, he…

— Washington Irving

To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement.

— Joseph Addison