#leisure

Most of us have no sympathy with the rich idler who spends his life in pleasure without ever doing any work. But even he fulfills a function in the life of the social organism. He sets an example of luxury that awakens in the multitude a consciousness of new needs and gives industry the incentive to fulfill them. ↗

— Ludwig von Mises

#economics #leisure #luxury #wealth #life

Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes. ↗

— James Madison

#any #apt #classes #fill #good

I sort of leave the character at the end of the day. I don't carry anything around with me - no excess baggage or unnecessary thoughts. I think it's too exhausting to do that. To put things into perspective - your work is your work, and your leisure time is something else. ↗

— Sean Bean

#around #baggage #carry #character #day

In our leisure we reveal what kind of people we are. ↗

— Ovid

#leisure #our #people #reveal

What we do during our working hours determines what we have; what we do in our leisure hours determines what we are. ↗

— George Eastman

#during #hours #leisure #our #working

Automation and technology would be a great boon if it were creative, if there were more leisure, more opportunity to engage in raising a family, providing guidance to the young, all the stuff we say we need. America will work if we're all in it together. It'll work when there's a shared sense of destiny. It can be done! ↗

— Jerry Brown

#automation #boon #creative #destiny #done

Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure. ↗

— Lord Byron

#haste #leisure #love #men

The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure. ↗

— Sydney J. Harris

#leisure #liberal #liberal education #make #mind

The soul is dyed with the color of its leisure thoughts. ↗

— Dean Inge

#dyed #leisure #soul #thoughts

We can say without exaggeration that the present national ambition of the United States is unemployment. People live for quitting time, for weekends, for vacations, and for retirement; moreover, this ambition seems to be classless, as true in the executive suites as on the assembly lines. One works not because the work is necessary, valuable, useful to a desirable end, or because one loves to do it, but only to be able to quit - a condition that a saner time would regard as infernal, a condemnation. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#work #food