#activity

To live well is to work well, to show a good activity. ↗

— Thomas Aquinas

#good #live #show #well #work

Since it is seldom clear whether intellectual activity denotes a superior mode of being or a vital deficiency, opinion swings between considering intellect a privilege and seeing it as a handicap. ↗

— Jacques Barzun

#being #between #clear #considering #deficiency

I'd been doing projects outdoors for the public. I made pigeons eat geometry by putting bread out in rhomboids and triangles. I don't know if this activity made sense, but the work was available. ↗

— Jenny Holzer

#available #been #bread #doing #eat

Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else. ↗

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

#activity #affords #anyone #else #going

I maintain also that substances, whether material or immaterial, cannot be conceived in their bare essence without any activity, activity being of the essence of substance in general. ↗

— Gottfried Leibniz

#also #any #bare #being #cannot

Obsession is the single most wasteful human activity, because with an obsession you keep coming back and back and back to the same question and never get an answer. ↗

— Norman Mailer

#answer #back #because #coming #get

Those who appreciate the ways of simple tribes, where every activity is direct and immediately understandable, are able to live among them. ↗

— Ella Maillart

#activity #among #appreciate #direct #every

People tend to associate anyone who looks and behaves differently with illegal or immoral activity. ↗

— Marilyn Manson

#anyone #associate #behaves #differently #illegal

But I absolutely believe that architecture is a social activity that has to do with some sort of communication or places of interaction, and that to change the environment is to change behaviour. ↗

— Thom Mayne

#activity #architecture #behaviour #believe #change

I'm interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos, especially activity that appears to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom. ↗

— Jim Morrison

#activity #anything #appears #chaos #disorder