#sedentary

The mind of the Renaissance was not a pilgrim mind, but a sedentary city mind, like that of the ancients. ↗

— George Santayana

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The sedentary life...is the real sin against the holy spirit. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#spirit #life

So, if people didn’t settle down to take up farming, why then did they embark on this entirely new way of living? We have no idea – or actually, we have lots of ideas, but we don’t know if any of them are right. According to Felipe Fernández-Armesto, at least thirty-eight theories have been put forward to explain why people took to living in communities: that they were driven to it by climatic change, or by a wish to stay near their dead, or by a powerful desire to brew and drink beer, which could only be indulged by staying in one place. ↗

— Bill Bryson

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I'm not a sedentary person. I've always been active. ↗

— Lauren Bacall

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Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Sporting goods sales have suffered because Americans have become too sedentary. ↗

— Mike May

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