Activity Quotes

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Perhaps the best reason for regarding mathematics as an art is not so much that it affords an outlet for creative activity as that it… — Morris Kline
If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence. — Aristotle
Modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization, the defining force of a new social order in which efficiency is no longer an option… — Jacques Ellul
Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.… — John F. Kennedy
What makes people happy is activity; changing evil itself into good by power, working in a God like manner. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
There is an incompatibility between literary creation and political activity. — Mario Vargas Llosa
The mania of thinking renders one unfit for every activity. — Anatole France
The man whose whole activity is diverted to inner meditation becomes insensible to all his surroundings. — Emile Durkheim
Philosophy is not a theory but an activity. — Ludwig Wittgenstein
Observation - activity of both eyes and ears. — Horace Mann
Intellectual tasting of life will not supersede muscular activity. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
In activity we must find our joy as well as glory; and labor, like everything else that is good, is its own reward. — Edwin Percy Whipple
Happiness is activity. — Aristotle
Try to relax, and you will find out that you feel more tense than ever. Try harder and you will feel more tense and more… — Rajneesh
So many religions are there because so many people are unhappy. A happy person needs no religion; a happy person needs no temple, no church… — Rajneesh
An aspiration is a joy forever, a possession as solid as a landed estate, a fortune which we can never exhaust and which gives us… — Robert Louis Stevenson
I'm struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental… — Brian Eno
Capitalism is not only a better form of organizing human activity than any deliberate design, any attempt to organize it to satisfy particular preferences, to… — Friedrich August von Hayek
Lobbying' is the activity of attempting to influence legislation by privately influencing the legislators. It is the result and creation of a mixed economy-of government… — Ayn Rand
The desire of businessmen for profits is what drives prices down unless forcibly prevented from engaging in price competition, usually by governmental activity. — Thomas Sowell

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