A Quote by Blaise Pascal

All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room.

Blaise Pascal

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Blaise Pascal
French - Philosopher
June 19, 1623 - August 19, 1662

I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room.

Blaise Pascal

The sole cause of all human misery is the inability of people to sit quietly in their rooms.

Blaise Pascal

All sorrow has its root in man's inability to sit quiet in a room by himself.

Blaise Pascal

All mankind's troubles are caused by one single thing, which is their inability to sit quietly.

Blaise Pascal

All man's troubles come from not knowing how to sit still in one room.

Blaise Pascal

All suffering comes from a person's inability to sit still and be alone.

Anthony de Mello

And what constitutes evil, real evil, is the taking of a single human life. Whether a man would die tomorrow or the day after or eventually... it doesn't matter. Because if God does not exist, then life... every second of it... Is all we have.

Anne Rice

All the trouble in the world is due to the fact that man cannot sit still in a room.

Blaise Pascal

Most of the evils of life arise from man's being unable to sit still in a room.

Blaise Pascal

The greatest cause of evil included all human motives in one giant paradox. Good and bad were so inextricably mixed that we couldn't make them out; bad seemed to lead to good, and good motives led to bad. The paradox is that evil comes from man's urge to heroic victory over evil.

Ernest Becker

Martin Buber suggested that evil prevailed because of the inability of man to imagine the real. Yet human beings do have that capacity. Lord Byron, a poet favored by Alfred Nobel, captured the stark essence of a post-nuclear world in his poem Darkness.

Bernard Lown

Inability to tell good from evil is the greatest worry of man's life.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Upon reflection, I decided I had three main weaknesses: I was confused (evidenced by a lack of facts, an inability to coordinate my thoughts, and an inability to verbalize my ideas); I had a lack of confidence, which cause me to back down from forcefully stated positions; and I was overly emotional at the expense of careful, 'scientific' though. I was thirty-seven years old and still discovering who I was.

Julia Child

The core of original sin, then is LOT - Lack of Trust. Or, it could be considered an innate inability to adequately value ourselves. Label it a 'negative self-image,' but do not say that the central core of the human soul is wickedness. ... positive Christianity does not hold to human depravity, but to human inability.

Robert H. Schuller

The sum of a man's problems come from his inability to be alone in a silent room.

Blaise Pascal

The educated man had throughout the ages found a way to covert passionate activity into silent and motionless pleasure. He can sit still in a room and not perish.

Jacques Barzun

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