All things Quote by Charles Baudelaire

It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.

— Charles Baudelaire

Un auteur ga" te tout quand il veut trop bien faire. An author spoils everything when he wants too much to do good.

— Jean de La Fontaine

Once efficiency is universally accepted as a rule, it becomes an inner compulsion and weighs like a sense of sin, simply because no one…

— Clement Greenberg

“For most of us the time we spend at our work is a large part of our whole lives, and as our job usually…

— Friedrich A. Hayek

One must work, if not from inclination, at least out of despair — since it proves, on close examination, that work is less boring…

— Charles Baudelaire

Etre un homme utile m'a paru toujours quelque chose de bien hideux. To be useful has always seemed to me quite hideous.

— Charles Baudelaire

“ Work does not “give” dignity to our lives through the excellence or happiness it fosters. The dignity of work comes less from its…

— Russell Muirhead

“Between love and the automatic garbage chute, young people everywhere have made their choice and prefer the garbage chute. [Entre l'amour et le vide-ordure…

— Ivan Chtcheglov

“No other technique for the conduct of life attaches the individual so firmly to reality as laying emphasis on work; for his work at…

— Sigmund Freud

“the superfluity of the comforts of like destroys all joy in satisfying one's needs, while great freedom in the choice of occupation...is just what…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Less extreme is the simple costliness in time and convenience and money and effort to replace excessive and addictive leisure with acts of servant…

— John Piper

Tout re volutionnaire finit en oppresseur ou en he re tique. Every revolutionary ends as an oppressor or a heretic.

— Albert Camus