Activity Quote by Immanuel Kant

Idleness is the sepulchre of a living man.

— J. G. Holland

Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without passion, without business, without entertainment, without care. It is then that he…

— Blaise Pascal

There is nothing so insupportable to man as to be in entire repose, without passion, occupation, amusement, or application. Then it is that he…

— Blaise Pascal

“Human life must be some kind of mistake. The truth of this will be sufficiently obvious if we only remember that man is a…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

The pleasure of being alive is brought into sharper focus when you need to pay attention to staying alive.

— Richard Louv

A man is really alive only when he delights in the good-will of others.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Why does a human body become deceased? The reason is that as long as the human body is not free from suffering, mind cannot…

— Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar

Living, just by itself - what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy…

— Louis-Ferdinand Celine

It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.

— Agnes Repplier

“An active life serves the purpose of giving man the opportunity to realize values in creative work, while a passive life of enjoyment affords…

— Viktor E. Frankl

“Man’s mortality is therefore a phenomenon that runs counter to his nature in that it opposes that for which he has been designed. This…

— Archimandrite Zacharias Zacharou

The average man gets his living by such depressing devices that boredom becomes a sort of natural state to him.

— H. L. Mencken