Amusement Quote by Aristotle

Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.

— Alexander Pope

The happy life is regarded as a life in conformity with virtue. It is a life which involves effort and is not spent in…

— Aristotle

No one has yet added up all the heavy, stress-filled workdays as well as the hundreds, perhaps thousands, of lives that are wasted to…

— Leo Tolstoy

Happiness does not lie in amusement; it would be strange if one were to take trouble and suffer hardship all one's life in order…

— Aristotle

The happy life is thought to be one of excellence; now an excellent life requires exertion, and does not consist in amusement.

— Aristotle

Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.

— Aristotle

Amusement is a way of boredom-avoidance through external stimulation that fails to exercise our minds. It's mere diversion.

— John Ortberg

'Amusement' is appealing because we don't have to think; it spares us the fear and anxiety that might otherwise prey on our thoughts.

— John Ortberg

To find recreation in amusement is not happiness.

— Blaise Pascal

Innocent amusements are such as excite moderately, and such as produce a cheerful frame of mind, not boisterous mirth; such as refresh, instead of…

— William Ellery Channing

“it is a wretched thing when amusement becomes a vocation. Amusement should be used to do us good "like a medicine"; it must never…

— Charles H. Spurgeon

To find recreation in amusements is not happiness; for this joy springs from alien and extrinsic sources, and is therefore dependent upon and subject…

— Blaise Pascal