Idleness Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche Download Open image “Idleness is the parent of psychology.” — Friedrich Nietzsche ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Idleness Parent Parenting Procrastination Psychology
Idleness is the beginning of all psychology. What? Could it be that psychology is ? a vice? — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Idleness is more an infirmity of the mind than of the body. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Idleness is the stupidity of the body, and stupidity is the idleness of the mind. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Woe to those who lead idle lives. Idleness is a dreadful illness and must be cured in childhood. If it is not cured then,… — Carlo Collodi Copy Share Image
Idleness is an inlet to disorder, and makes way for licentiousness. People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company. — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
Animals know nothing of themselves, and they also know nothing of the world. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Every select man strives instinctively for a citadel and a privacy, where he is FREE from the crowd, the many, the majority-- where he… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“It breaks my heart. Better than your words, your eye tells me all your peril. You are not yet free, you still search for freedom. Your search has fatigued you and made you too wakeful. You long for the open heights, your soul thirsts for the stars. But your bad instincts too thirst for freedom. Your fierce dogs long for… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
“79. A soul which knows that it is loved, but does not itself love, betrays its sediment: its dregs come up.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We deceive ourselves when giving respect to the person for whom we have surrendered ourselves, when we respectively expect them to be as we… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The great periods of our life occur when we gain the courage to rechristen what is bad about us as what is best.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“What is life? Life - that is: continually shedding something that wants to die. Life - that is: being cruel and inexorable against everything about us that is growing old and weak -and not only about us. Life - that is, then: being without reverence for those who are dying, who are wretched, who are ancient? Constantly being a murderer?… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
It is thus only this personal feeling of misery that we get rid of by acts of pity. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Writers whose thoughts are expressed with clarity and precision are assumed by readers to be superficial. Where the meaning is obscured, then readers give… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“he does not wear a twitching, mobile, human face, but rather a mask, as it were, with its features in dignified equilibrium; he does… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Chastity is a virtue with some, but with many it is almost a vice. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The earth is like the breasts of a woman: useful as well as pleasing. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Virtue? A fig! 'Tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens, to the which our wills are gardeners. So that if we will plant nettles or sow lettuce, set hyssop and weed up thyme, supply it with one gender of herbs or distract it with many—either to have it sterile with idleness, or manured… — William Shakespeare Copy Share
We are more heavily taxed by our idleness, pride and folly than we are taxed by government. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Inactivity and deprivation of all accustomed stimulus is not rest; it is a preparation for the tomb — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
The even mead, that erst brought sweetly forth The freckled cowslip, burnet, and green clover, Wanting the scythe, all uncorrected, rank, Conceives by idleness,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
There is a perennial nobleness, and even sacredness, in work. Were he never so benighted, forgetful of his high calling, there is always hope… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Great talents, by the rust of long disuse, Grow lethargic and shrink from what they were. — Ovid Copy Share
Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Let us be grateful to Adam: he cut us out of the blessing of idleness and won for us the curse of labor. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If I gave my mother a knitted scarf she'd be worried I was wasting my time doing stupid stuff like knitting instead of school… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
I was never comfortable with the risk of climbing in the Himalayas, or the amount of time in idleness that is involved in the… — Steve Fossett Copy Share Image
