Blaise Pascal on Unhappiness
A fellow Frenchman's words to console Nico's winter blues x)).... ...
Interesting
He obviously didn't anticipate the internet, nowadays it's hard to get people to leave the room!
Going one step further
One could argue that the statement has been flipped, nowadays unhappiness is mostly coming from not leaving the room, funny times we're living in...
If he were alive today the quote would be:
"All of man's unhappiness stems from one thing, which is that he does not know how to log off."
The looks I get when someone asks me what am I doing…
And I try to explain what I’m “doing” is nothing.
Exactly like that line from Prince's Raspberry Beret song....
'I was busy doing something close to nothing'.... 😁👍
I understand what he means perfectly and even in today's world it truly resonates with me.
Unfortunately I have known far too many people that are incapable of having peace in their own company and always needed to be with others. Whereas I have always been happiest in my own company knowing my own mind and not caring quite so much for the comp...
Well seeing as you mentioned him, I think his most famous quote is apt and an ethos I aspire to.
"You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment, Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land, there is no other land but this" Marc
I've been like that my entire life.
There's that saying as well which is roughly - if you're not content by yourself, you're not in good company 😉😉😉
Clearly a city man, Blaise…
As this was said during a time where French state was actively thinking about how to prevent French peasantry from engaging in collective hibernation in winter 😁 Not a joke - and they were quite peaceful in rooms for too long, dropping productivity in com...