#able

All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#alone #being #derive #men #miseries

As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#against #be happy #death #fight #happy

There are two kinds of people one can call reasonable: those who serve God with all their heart because they know him, and those who seek him with all their heart because they do not know him. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#call #god #heart #him #kinds

I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#comes #discovered #evil #human #i

If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a part know the whole? ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#further #going #himself #how #incapable

You may not seem able to change some outer circumstances but you can start by changing your inner experience of life and yourself. ↗

— Joy Page

#change #changing #circumstances #experience #inner

I really like using my Samsung (005930:KS) tablet. I previously used the Motorola Xoom for a while and liked that. ↗

— Larry Page

#like #liked #previously #really #tablet

Capitalism has its weaknesses. But it is capitalism that ended the stranglehold of the hereditary aristocracies, raised the standard of living for most of the world and enabled the emancipation of women. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#emancipation #enabled #ended #hereditary #living

I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind, except for children, the severely disabled and the elderly, whose physical frailty demands society's care. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#blind #care #children #claims #demands

In an era ruled by materialism and unstable geopolitics, art must be restored to the center of public education. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#center #education #era #materialism #must