Civilization Quote by Bertrand Russell

To be able to use leisure intelligently will be the last product of an intelligent civilization.

— Bertrand Russel

How we use our leisure is equally as important to our joy as our occupational pursuits. Proper use of leisure requires discriminating judgment. Our…

— J. Richard Clarke

Leisure is the time for doing something useful.

— Benjamin Franklin

Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.

— Benjamin Franklin

Leisure consists in all those virtuous activities by which a man grows morally, intellectually, and spiritually. It is that which makes a life worth…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization.

— Arnold J. Toynbee

There can be no education without leisure; and without leisure, education is worthless.

— Sarah Josepha Hale

Leisure and the cultivation of human capacities are inextricably interdependent.

— Margaret Mead

Leisure is time for doing something useful; this leisure the diligent man will obtain, but the lazy man never.

— Benjamin Franklin

The essence of leisure is not to assure that we may function smoothly but rather to assure that we, embedded in our social function,…

— Josef Pieper

Education has no more serious responsibility than the making of adequate provision for enjoyment of recreative leisure not only for the sake of immediate…

— John Dewey

Leisure of itself gives pleasure and happiness and enjoyment of life, which are experienced, not by the busy man, but by those who have…

— Aristotle