No! Be weak! Give up! You can’t do everything. Lower your standards. Get friends to come and help you.
If you want health, wealth and happiness, the first step is to throw away your alarm clocks!
Education is like pruning ; it wrecks the natural growth of the tree in favour of a form that is useful to commercial society
Der Müßiggänger hat den Wunsch, ständig ein gutes Leben zu haben, nicht nur an Samstagabenden.
Being good to people is the only insurance policy you need.
We have become so obsessed by numbers and by bottom lines that beauty and truth has been knocked aside.
We have a job. A job! Our reward after years of education! We worked hard in our youth in order to work hard again in our adulthood. A job! The summit of our lives!
Thus it is that the Internet, once heralded as an exciting new medium of communication, is now little more than a vast mail-order catalogue.
Our dreams take us into other worlds, alternative realities that help us make sense of day-to-day realities.
I count it as an absolute certainty that in paradise, everyone naps. A nap is a perfect pleasure and it's useful, too. It splits the day into two halves, making each half more manageable and enjoyable...
Better to have lots of time than lots of money in those early years. There will be time later for earning.
There is a lot to enjoy in life if you make the effort to go out there and drink it in.
The moon and the stars are soothing constants in an idler’s life.
The lie-in—by which I mean lying in bed awake—is not a selfish indulgence but an essential tool for any student of the art of living, which is what the idler really is. Lying in bed doing nothing is n...
Idleness as a waste of time is a damaging notion put about by its spiritually vacant enemies. The fact that idling can be enormously productive is repressed. Musicians are characterized as slackers; w...
But, sadly, our manly struggle to conform to the slave-like work rhythms of present-day custom has led to the nap being replaced by that costly and damaging drink, coffee. As paracetamol is to the col...
The job was invented in order to make things easier for those at the top.
It will soon be difficult to put up a shelf without a degree in shelf putting up.
In a world where you are constantly asked to be 'committed,' it is liberating to give yourself the license to be a dilettante. Commit to nothing. Try everything.
How much better life would be if we began the day with a poem rather than the empty prattle of newspapers, with their diet of fear, hate, envy and jealousy.