All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone. - Blaise Pascal. - Blaise Pascal

I set it down as a fact that if all men knew what each said of the other, there would not be four friends in the world.

If our condition were truly happy, we would not seek diversion from it in order to make ourselves happy.

I am in terrible ignorance of everything. I know not what my body is, nor my senses, nor my soul, not even that part of me which thinks what I say, which reflects on all and on itself, and knows itself no more than the rest. I see those frightful spaces of the universe which surround me, and I find myself tied to one corner of this vast expanse, without knowing why I am put in this place rather than in another, nor why the short time which is given me to live is assigned to me at this point rather than at another of the whole eternity which was before me or which shall come after me. I see nothing but infinites on all sides, which surround me as an atom and as a shadow which endures only for an instant and returns no more. All I know is that I must soon die, but what I know least is this very death which I cannot escape.