"All the trouble in the world is..." - Quote by Blaise Pascal
All the trouble in the world is due to the fact that man cannot sit still in a room.
More by Blaise Pascal
“To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher.”
“Reverend Fathers, my letters did not usually follow each other at such close intervals, nor were they so long.... This one would not be so long had I but the leisure to make it shorter.”
“En un mot, l'homme conna|"t qu'il est mise rable: il est donc mise rable, puisqu'il l'est; mais il est bien grand, puisqu'il le conna|"t. In one word, man knows that he is miserable and therefore he is miserable because he knows it; but he is also worthy, because he knows his condition.”
More on Restlessness
“Do not be deceived! The busiest people harbor the greatest weariness, their restlessness is weakness--they no longer have the capacity for waiting and idleness.”
“Restlessness is the hallmark of existence.”
“Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without passion, without business, without entertainment, without care. It is then that he recognizes that he is empty, insufficient, dependent, ineffectual. From the depths of his soul now comes at once boredom, gloom, sorrow, chagrin, resentment and despair.”
More on Human Nature
“For that reason, let a prince have the credit of conquering and holding his state, the means will always be considered honest, and he will be praised by everybody because the vulgar are always taken by what a thing seems to be and by what comes of it; and in the world there are only the vulgar, for the few find a place there only when the many have no ground to rest on.”
“How is it that we remember the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not remember how often we have recounted it to the same person?”
“Everybody will make mistakes, and for some that mistake will rise to the level of being a crime.”