Idleness Quote by Frederick the Great

“Men have become the tools of their tools. Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul. Most of the luxuries and…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Taught by centuries of living, the republic of immortal men had achieved a perfection of tolerance, almost of disdain. They knew that over an…

— Jorge Luis Borges

“After so much imposture, so much fraud, it is comforting to contemplate a beggar. He, at least, neither lies nor lies to himself: his…

— Emil Cioran

“he declares the necessity of men and his dependence on them as a channel through which to exert his power upon the world. This…

— E.M. Bounds

“...given the behaviour of human beings throughout the ages, they do not deserve life, with its many dark sides, in all its beauty, grandeur…

— José Saramago

“When we see that almost everything men devote their lives to attain, sparing no effort and encountering a thousand toils and dangers in the…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“At the age he had attained with his life span short before him he had begun to look upon the human world with the…

— Paulette Jiles

“When it shall be desired to enlighten man, let him always have truth laid before him. Instead of kindling his imagination by the idea…

— Baron d'Holbach

For until men recognize that they owe everything to God, that they are nourished by His fatherly care, that He is the Author of…

— John Calvin

Without that innate sense of human worth, a man cannot long endure adversity, nor can he long enjoy prosperity.

— Confucius

“There is no force in the life of ancient man, the influence of which so pervades all his activities as does that of the…

— James Henry Breasted

“What interest, in fact, can this depressing work have for the worker, when he knows that the fate awaiting him from the cradle to…

— Pyotr Kropotkin