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- All of our technology is completely unnecessary to a happy life.
- All poets are idlers, even if all idlers are not poets.
- Being lazy does not mean that you do not create. In fact, lying around doing nothing is an important, nay crucial, part of the creative…
- Bosses should sanction the nap rather than expect workers to power on all day without repose. They might even find that workers' happiness - or…
- I could happily lean on a gate all the livelong day, chatting to passers-by about the wind and the rain. I do a lot of…
- In both word and deed, one of the greatest idlers of all time was John Lennon. In his songs we see repeated defences of simply…
- Long weekends at festivals, short weeks at home, all summer long: now that is surely preferable to the immense cost and headache of the nuclear…
- Management gurus in general are, I think, best avoided. All too often they reduce your working life to a list of rules to be followed.…
- ...[W]e should be mucking about all the time, because mucking about is enjoying life for its own sake, now, and not in preparation for an…
- Education itself is a putting off, a postponement; we are told to work hard to get good results. Why? So we can get a good…
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide