Leisure Quote by Thomas Hobbes Download Open image “Leisure is the Mother of Philosophy.” — Thomas Hobbes ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Leisure Mother Philosophy
Leisure is the mother of philosophy; and commonwealth, the mother of peace and leisure. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Leisure consists in all those virtuous activities by which a man grows morally, intellectually, and spiritually. It is that which makes a life worth… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Leisure and the cultivation of human capacities are inextricably interdependent. — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I don't think many people have a very good understanding of leisure and the importance it plays in our lives. — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
How we use our leisure is equally as important to our joy as our occupational pursuits. Proper use of leisure requires discriminating judgment. Our… — J. Richard Clarke Copy Share Image
Leisure is time for doing something useful; this leisure the diligent man will obtain, but the lazy man never. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Leisure is only possible when we are at one with ourselves. We tend to overwork as a means of self-escape, as a way of… — Josef Pieper Copy Share Image
For the classics philosophical insight was the product of a life of leisure; for me a life of leisure is the product of philosophical… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Do not that to another, which thou wouldst not have done to thyself. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
For it is with the mysteries of our religion, as with wholesome pills for the sick, which swallowed whole, have the virtue to cure;… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Intemperance is naturally punished with diseases; rashness, with mischance; injustice; with violence of enemies; pride, with ruin; cowardice, with oppression; and rebellion, with slaughter. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
He that is to govern a whole Nation , must read in himself, not this, or that particular man; but Mankind; which though it be hard to do, harder than to learn any Language, or Science; yet, when I shall have set down my own reading orderly, and perspicuously, the pains left another, will be only to consider, if he… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share
If men are naturally in a state of war, why do they always carry arms and why do they have keys to lock their… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Let a man (as most men do) rate themselves as the highest Value they can; yet their true Value is no more than it… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
A free man is he that, in those things which by his strength and wit he is able to do, is not hindered to… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
“Covenants, without the sword, are but words and of no strength to secure a man at all.” — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Because silver and gold have their value from the matter itself, they have first this privilege, that the value of them cannot be altered… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
“I don't envy "busy." Busy means having a schedule, not living life. What I really covet is leisure and peace of mind. Those who… — Donna Lynn Hope Copy Share Image
We simply do not have time as we move from one meeting to the next to have hours to peruse leisure websites of whatever… — Crispin Blunt Copy Share Image
Sure, I’m dramatic and sloppily semi-cynical and semi-sentimental. But, in leisure years I could grow and choose my way. Now I am living on the edge. We all are on the brink, and it takes a lot of nerve, a lot of energy, to teeter on the edge, looking over, looking down into the windy blackness and not being quite… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share
Work and leisure are complementary parts of the same living process and cannot be separated without destroying the joy of work and the bliss… — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
“Key to the success of ugly leisure is that it keeps those who participate in it in the dark about how little it is… — Paul Munson & Joshua Farris Drake Copy Share Image
English literature is a glorious inheritance which is open to all - there are no barriers, no coupons, and no restrictions. In the English… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Now it is time to sit quiet, face to face with thee, and to sing dedication of life in this silent and overflowing leisure. — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
Nobody can live in society without conventions. The reason why sensible people are as conventional as they can bear to be is that conventionality… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
