All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room.
Quote by Blaise Pascal about man
Quotes by Blaise Pascal about Man
29 quotes by Blaise Pascal about man
Blaise Pascal French mathematician, physicist, and religious philosopher
All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.
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I can well conceive a man without hands, feet, head. But I cannot conceive man without thought, he would be a stone or a brute.
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I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room
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If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.
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Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.
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Man is but a reed, the weakest in nature, but he is a thinking reed.
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Man's true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature, as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good.
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Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.
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Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction.
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Men never do evil so fully and cheerfully as when we do it out of conscience.
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Men often take their imagination for their heart; and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.
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The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.
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The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.
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The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.
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