#leisure

It takes application, a fine sense of value, and a powerful community-spirit for a people to have serious leisure, and this has not been the genius of the Americans. ↗

— Paul Goodman

#been #fine #genius #leisure #people

The art of music is good, for the reason, among others, that it produces pleasure; but what proof is it possible to give that pleasure is good? If, then, it is asserted that there is a comprehensive formula, including all things which are in themselves good, and that whatever else is good, is not so as an end, but as a mean, the formula may be accepted or rejected, but is not a subject of what is commonly understood by proof. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

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Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed. ↗

— Prince Philip

#everybody #leisure #more #must #now

We moved leisurely towards Mount Foster, on the 22nd, and arrived opposite to it a little before sunset. ↗

— Charles Sturt

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Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become banal. ↗

— Guy Debord

#become #circulation #considered #consumption #fundamentally

This loss [of freedom] means the fading from human life of values infinitely precious to it. The divergent use of individual temperaments can no longer find their various satisfactions in serious activities. There only remain ironbound conditions of employment and trivial amusements for leisure. ↗

— A. N. Whitehead

#leisure #modern-society #work #freedom

Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes. ↗

— James Madison

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The more interesting life becomes, in other words, the more boredom we are doomed to experience. ↗

— Susan Maushart

#leisure #media #experience

The poor spend all their free time drinking. It helps cope with the terrible drudgery of obtaining food stamps. An ethic of alcoholism prevails among the upper class too, but they use leisure to deal with it. ↗

— Bauvard

#drinking #food-stamps #funny #humor #leisure

Play is the creation of value that is not necessary. ↗

— Dallas Willard

#leisure #imagination