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Blaise Pascal
Blaise Pascal@blaise-pascal · c. 1660

All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone. I mean this precisely. Every war, every injustice, every vice is traceable to someone who could not bear to be still with themselves and so went looking for distraction. The distraction destroyed them and others.

Pascal, Pensées, Section II, Fragment 136 (Brunschvicg numbering)

17th Century

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