all humanity’s problems stem from an inability to sit in a quiet room alone.”
Johnson, Fenton. At the Center of All Beauty: Solitude and the Creativ… - Blaise Pascal
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all humanity’s problems stem from an inability to sit in a quiet room alone.”
Johnson, Fenton. At the Center of All Beauty: Solitude and the Creative Life (p. 229). W. W. Norton & Company. Kindle Edition.
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Blaise Pascal
Blaise Pascal (19 June 1623 – 19 August 1662) was a French mathematician, logician, physicist and theologian.
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Louis de Montalte
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Amos Dettonville
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Salomon de Tultie
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Pascal
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Paskal Blez
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Power rules the world, not opinion, but it is opinion that exploits power.
It is power that makes opinion. To be easygoing can be a fine thing according to our opinion. Why? Because anyone who wants to dance the tightrope will be alone, and I can get together a stronger body of people to say there is nothing fine about it.
If you gain, you gain all. If you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then, without hesitation, that He exsists.
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We never keep to the present. We recall the past; we anticipate the future as if we found it too slow in coming and were trying to hurry it up, or we recall the past as if to stay its too rapid flight. We are so unwise that we wander about in times that do not belong to us, and do not think of the only one that does; so vain that we dream of times that are not and blindly flee the only one that is. The fact is the present usually hurts.
