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.
We have become so obsessed by numbers and by bottom lines that beauty and truth has been knocked aside.
You must find out who you are and proceed on the basis of that knowledge.
Der Müßiggänger hat den Wunsch, ständig ein gutes Leben zu haben, nicht nur an Samstagabenden.
Education is like pruning ; it wrecks the natural growth of the tree in favour of a form that is useful to commercial society
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...
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...
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!
One lives as if one might miss out on something.
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...
It will soon be difficult to put up a shelf without a degree in shelf putting up.
The moon and the stars are soothing constants in an idler’s life.
There is a lot to enjoy in life if you make the effort to go out there and drink it in.
Better to have lots of time than lots of money in those early years. There will be time later for earning.
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...
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.
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.
Long periods of languor, indolence and staring at the ceiling are needed by any creative person in order to develop ideas.
Sledování televize je pasivní. Není to dovednost. Když budete častěji sledovat televizi, nezlepšíte se v tom.
The great management guru Charles Handy says that, as far as money goes, you have to look after yourself. He reckons you may need to do something else as well as your passion project to earn money, pa...
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