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Blaise Pascal on Our Inability to Sit in a Quiet Room Alone

By Filings on Fri, 04/03/20
Christian Living
Blaise Pascal
Quietness

“I have discovered that all the unhappiness of men arises from one single fact, that they cannot stay quietly in their own chamber. A man who has enough to live on, if he knew how to stay with pleasure at home, would not leave it to go to sea or to besiege a town…. Hence it comes that men so much love noise and stir; hence it comes that the prison is so horrible a punishment; hence it comes that the pleasure of solitude is a thing incomprehensible.” - Cranach

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