"Leisure is not synonymous with time. Nor is……" — Mortimer Adler

"Leisure is not synonymous with time. Nor is it a noun. Leisure is a verb. I leisure. You leisure."

— Mortimer Adler

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87 Quotes by Mortimer Adler

Mortimer Adler has 87 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Men value things in three ways: as useful, as pleasant or sources of pleasure, and as excellent, or as intrinsically…
One of the aims of sexual union is procreation - the creation by reproduction of an image of itself, of…
Love consists in giving without getting in return; in giving what is not owed, what is not due the other.…
Unless we love and are loved, each of us is alone, each of us is deeply lonely.
It is love rather than sexual lust or unbridled sexuality if, in addition to the need or want involved, there…
When we ask for love, we don't ask others to be fair to us-but rather to care for us, to…
Love can be unselfish, in the sense of being benevolent and generous, without being selfless.
We are selfish when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good for ourselves. We are altruistic when we…
You have to allow a certain amount of time in which you are doing nothing in order to have things…
If one wants another only for some self-satisfaction, usually in the form of sensual pleasure, that wrong desire takes the…
Love without conversation is impossible.
Not to engage in the pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men.

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More Leisure Quotes

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Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or… — Aristotle
The end of labor is to gain leisure. — Aristotle
Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great… — Abigail Adams
The difference between film and TV is the pace. You don't have the leisure of time in television. — Alan Ball
Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness. — Ambrose Bierce
People are often quite surprised by the sport and leisure activities practised by the blind. For example, tandem cycling is… — Andrea Bocelli
I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it. — Rita Mae Brown
To describe my scarce leisure time in today's terms, I always default to reading. — Jimmy Buffett
Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement,… — Anthony Burgess
Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure. — Lord Byron
To hurry through one's leisure is the most unbusiness-like of actions. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Leisure without literature is death and burial alive. — Seneca the Younger

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