Albert Cossery | Are.na
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Albert Cossery | Are.na
I could say leisure is the source of all great things. The preservation of life is tedious; freedom from its demands is needed for all high science, art, and literature as well, and also all beautiful living, all adventures, all development of your body to the heights of beauty.
Bronze Age Pervert • Bronze Age Mindset
Laura Huang added
Wealth without work.
Pleasure without conscience.
Knowledge without character.
Commerce without morality.
Science without humanity.
Religion without sacrifice.
Politics without principle.
Pleasure without conscience.
Knowledge without character.
Commerce without morality.
Science without humanity.
Religion without sacrifice.
Politics without principle.
Consequences
Britt Gage added
The Seven Social Sins by Federick Lewis Donaldson
"Contented poverty is an honourable estate."
Seneca • Letters From A Stoic: Epistulae Morales AD Lucilium (Illustrated. Newly revised text. Includes Image Gallery + Audio): All Three Volumes
Qui plus est, l’oisif possède une autre qualité, plus importante que toutes celles dont je viens de parler, à savoir la sagesse. Celui qui a contemplé à loisir la satisfaction puérile avec laquelle les autres vaquent à leurs menues activités aura pour les siennes propres une indulgence nettement ironique. Il ne rejoindra pas le chœur des dogmatique
... See moretom Hodgkinson • L'art d'être oisif: ... dans un monde de dingue (LIENS QUI LIBER) (French Edition)
Epicurus once said that the wise will accomplish three things in their life: leave written works behind them, be financially prudent and provide for the future, and cherish country living.
Ryan Holiday • Stillness Is the Key
filent. » La paresse est une compétence importante. Elle est non seulement agréable en elle-même mais aussi profondément salvatrice. Elle donne toute la liberté à notre corps et à notre esprit pour se guérir. Trop de travail détruit nos vies. La paresse les restaure.
tom Hodgkinson • L'art d'être oisif: ... dans un monde de dingue (LIENS QUI LIBER) (French Edition)
On Doing Nothing
The text advocates for the value of idleness and leisure, arguing that doing nothing can be spiritually enriching and beneficial for mental health, contrasting it with the harms of constant activity and productivity.
wastepaper.wordpress.comCulture depends for its very existence on leisure, and leisure, in its turn, is not possible unless it has a durable and consequently living link with the cultus, with divine worship.