Able Quote by Bertrand Russell

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

— Arnold J. Toynbee

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

— Bertrand Russel

There can be no high civilization where there is not ample leisure.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Leisure and the cultivation of human capacities are inextricably interdependent.

— Margaret Mead

The wise use of leisure, it must be conceded, is a product of civilization and education.

— Bertrand Russell

Leisure is only possible when we are at one with ourselves. We tend to overwork as a means of self-escape, as a way of…

— Josef Pieper

“Both for society as well as for the individual there is a gulf between merely living and living worthily. In order that one may…

— B.R. Ambedkar

Society of leisure perhaps? Indeed, the most remarkable aspect of the transition we are living through is not so much the passage from want…

— Henri Lefebvre

Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one 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

In order to become prosperous, a person must initially work very hard, so he or she has to sacrifice a lot of leisure time.

— Dalai Lama

I don't think many people have a very good understanding of leisure and the importance it plays in our lives.

— Jack Nicholson