Able Quote by Blaise Pascal Download Open image “All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.” — Blaise Pascal ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Able Men Quiet
The sum of a man's problems come from his inability to be alone in a silent room. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
All the unhappiness of men arises from one single fact, that they cannot stay quietly in their own chamber. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Men fear silence as they fear solitude, because both give them a glimpse of the terror of life's nothingness. — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
All the troubles of life come upon us because we refuse to sit quietly for a while each day in our rooms. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Altogether it will be found that a quiet life is characteristic of great men, and that their pleasures have not been of the sort… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Silence can be heard the loudest, while standing all alone in a crowded room. — Anne Dawn Copy Share Image
Men are disturbed not by things, but by the views which they take of them — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
“Do they think that they have given us great pleasure by telling us that they hold our soul to be no more than wind… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
There should be in eloquence that which is pleasing and that which is real; but that which is pleasing should itself be real. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The method of not erring is sought by all the world. The logicians profess to guide it, the geometricians alone attain it, and apart… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Mahomet established a religion by putting his enemies to death; Jesus Christ by commanding his followers to lay down their lives — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Reflect on death as in Jesus Christ, not as without Jesus Christ. Without Jesus Christ it is dreadful, it is alarming, it is the… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The Stoics say, "Retire within yourselves; it is there you will find your rest." And that is not true. Others say, "Go out of… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Happiness can be found neither in ourselves nor in external things, but in God and in ourselves as united to him. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Amusement that is excessive and followed only for its own sake, allures and deceives us. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
We desire truth, and find within ourselves only uncertainty. We seek happiness, and find only misery and death. We cannot but desire truth and… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Vanity is illustrated in the cause and effect of love, as in the case of Cleopatra. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
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