Top 23 Quotes About Leisure Philosophy
#1. Of all people only those are at leisure who make time for philosophy, only those are really alive. For they not only keep a good watch over their own lifetimes, but they annex every age to theirs.
Seneca.
#2. Of all men only those who find time for philosophy are at leisure, only they are truly alive; for it is not only their own lifetime they guard well; they add every age to their own; all the years that have passed before them they requisition for their store.
Seneca.
#3. When people ask me who my favorite country singer is, I say, 'You mean besides George Jones?'
Johnny Cash
#4. A man that steps aside from the world and has leisure to observe it without interest and design, thinks all mankind as mad as they think him.
E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl Of Halifax
#5. There was less of him now. There was less of them all. Officers and men dragged themselves around in uniforms three sizes too big, new holes punched into every belt, every collar hanging loose. They were a garrison of skinny boys performing a play about soldiers.
Chris Cleave
#7. It's not your fault if you're considered holy in a corrupt world.
Toba Beta
#8. These are our neighbours, our co-workers, friends' children ... the problem is closer than you think, but so is the solution.
Phillip C. McGraw
#9. Leisure can be one of the Mothers of Philosophy.
Thomas Hobbes
#10. Time is a game played beautifully by children.
Heraclitus
#12. There is no place in the world, I imagine, for a philosopher with a sense of humor, a new leisure, and an inquiring turn of mind!
Mary Roberts Rinehart
#13. Happiness seems to depend on leisure, because we work to have leisure, and wage war to live in peace.
Aristotle.
#14. Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become banal.
Guy Debord
#15. ... people didn't seem to be able to remember what it was like with the elves around. Life was certainly more interesting then, but usually because it was shorter. And it was more colorful, if you liked the color of blood.
Terry Pratchett
#16. small businesses have created eight million new jobs since 1990, while large ones have eliminated four million positions.
Salim Ismail
#17. If we were to one day encounter a form of life more powerful and intelligent than our own, and it regarded us as we regard fish, what would be our argument against being eaten?
Jonathan Safran Foer
#18. There are kids out there who'd chop their legs off to play football for Brighton
Robbie Savage
#19. In the end they'll judge me anyway, so whatever.
Kid Cudi
#20. I'm not going to live my life unhappy and why should he and we talk about it and I think what's great about the film is that it shows is the meaning of family doesn't have to be as traditional as it once was, like you can make a family.
Nia Long
#21. One time I tried to use the bathroom in the dark, and I missed the toilet, and I fell on the floor.
Rita Ora
#22. It's usually so fraught when you're taking a picture. I work with an 8-by-10 view camera and there's a, you know, hood that I put over my head, and it's tricky and complicated.
Sally Mann