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- Only those are called liberal or free which are concerned with knowledge; those which are concerned with utilitarian ends... are called servile...The question is... can…
- Of course the world of work begins to become - threatens to become - our only world, to the exclusion of all else. The demands…
- 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 trying…
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- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — 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
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life. — Aristotle
- As far as I'm concerned, if there is a supreme being then He chose organic evolution as a way of bringing into… — David Attenborough
- The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own existence. In… — Paul Auster
- An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence. — Honore de Balzac
- Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence. — Honore de Balzac
- I know everything should be photographed. It helps me make sense of my existence. — David Bailey
- But the issue is not only life and death but our existence before God and our being judged by him. All of… — Hans Urs von Balthasar
- Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the… — Henry Adams
- There are moments of existence when time and space are more profound, and the awareness of existence is immensely heightened. — Charles Baudelaire