Arise Quote by 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

“I have discovered that all the unhappiness of men arises from one single fact, that they cannot stay quietly in their own chamber.”

— Blaise Pascal

On the occasions when I have pondered over men's various activities, the dangers and worries they are exposed to at Court or at war,…

— Blaise Pascal

The sole cause of man's unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in his room.

— Blaise Pascal

On the occasions when I have pondered over men's various activities, the dangers and worries they are exposed to at court or at war,…

— Blaise Pascal

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

— Blaise Pascal

All mankind's unhappiness derives from one thing: his inability to know how to remain in repose in one room.

— Blaise Pascal

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

— Blaise Pascal

The source of man's unhappiness is his ignorance of Nature.

— Baron d'Holbach

All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.

— Jean de la Bruyere

There is no truer cause of unhappiness amongst men than, where naturally expecting charity and benevolence, they receive harm and vexation.

— Francois Rabelais

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