#idleness — Public Fediverse posts
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Bartleby, the Script.
#bartleby #script #computerart #coding #idleness #bash #art #programming
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So here hath been dawning
Another blue Day:
Think wilt thou let it
Slip useless away.Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
Poem (1837-08), “Today,” st. 1More about this quote: wist.info/carlyle-thomas/84633…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #carlyle #thomascarlyle #carpediem #creation #dawn #idleness #indolence #liveinthepresent #opportunity #passageoftime #present #seizetheday #sloth #today
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A quotation from Samuel Johnson
The gloomy and the resentful are always found among those who have nothing to do or who do nothing.
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English writer, lexicographer, critic
Essay (1759-09-01), The Idler, No. 72More about this quote: wist.info/johnson-samuel/29381…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #samueljohnson #bitterness #boredom #gloom #gloominess #idlehands #idleness #indolence #laziness #malcontent #meaninglessness #resentfulness #resentment #slacker #sullenness #uselessness #sloth
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“The Importance Of Being Idle”, The American Scholar (https://theamericanscholar.org/the-importance-of-being-idle/).
Via HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47666639
#Idle #Idleness #Labor #Marxism #Work #Leisure #Capitalism #Economics
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A quotation from Samuel Johnson
There is no kind of idleness by which we are so easily seduced as that which dignifies itself by the appearance of business, and by making the loiterer imagine that he has something to do which must not be neglected, keeps in perpetual agitation and hurries him from place to place.
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English writer, lexicographer, critic
Essay (1759-03-17), The Idler, No. 48More about this quote: wist.info/johnson-samuel/2157/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #samueljohnson #activity #busyness #dosomething #idleness #keepingbusy
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A quotation from Josh Billings
Lazyness iz a good deal like money, — the more a man haz ov it the more he seems tew want.
[Laziness is a good deal like money — the more a man has of it, the more he seems to want.]Josh Billings (1818-1885) American humorist, aphorist [pseud. of Henry Wheeler Shaw]
Josh Billings’ Farmer’s Allminax, 1871-08 (1871 ed.)More about this quote: wist.info/billings-josh/82834/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #joshbillings #addiction #avarice #badhabit #greed #habit #idleness #indolence #languor #laziness #money #sloth
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For men ought not to be so elated by the dignity of the affairs which they have undertaken to manage, as to have no regard to their ease; nor ought they to dwell with fondness on any sort of ease which is inconsistent with dignity.
[Neque enim rerum gerendarum dignitate homines ecferri ita convenit ut otio non prospiciant, neque ullum amplexari otium quod abhorreat a dignitate.]Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) Roman orator, statesman, philosopher
Pro Sestio [For Publius Sestius], ch. 45 / sec. 98 (56-02 BC) [tr. Yonge (1891)]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/cicero-marcus-tulliu…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #cicero #prosestio #dignity #indolence #leisure #publicservice #recreation #retirement #sloth #worklifebalance #idleness #laziness #selfimportance #prestige
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A quotation from Samuel Johnson
To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavours with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English writer, lexicographer, critic
Essay (1758-08-05), The Idler, No. 17More about this quote: wist.info/johnson-samuel/25830…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #samueljohnson #criticism #deception #flaws #idleness #integrity #laziness #poverty #reproach #reputation #selfawareness #selfdeception #sloth
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A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson
Just now, when every one is bound, under pain of a decree in absence convicting them of lèse-respectability, to enter on some lucrative profession, and labour therein with something not far short of enthusiasm, a cry from the opposite party, who are content when they have enough, and like to look on and enjoy in the meanwhile, savours a little of bravado and gasconade. And yet this should not be. Idleness so called, which does not consist in doing nothing, but in doing a great deal not recognized in the dogmatic formularies of the ruling class, has as good a right to state its position as industry itself.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
Essay (1877-07), “An Apology for Idlers,” Cornhill Magazine, Vol. 36More about this quote: wist.info/stevenson-robert-lou…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #robertlouisstevenson #workingclass #contentment #disrespectability #enjoyment #enough #hardwork #idleness #industry #labor #makingmoney #recreation #rulingclass
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A quotation from Teddy Roosevelt
If you are rich and are worth your salt, you will teach your sons that though they may have leisure, it is not to be spent in idleness; for wisely used leisure merely means that those who possess it, being free from the necessity of working for their livelihood, are all the more bound to carry on some kind of non-remunerative work in science, in letters, in art, in exploration, in historical research-work of the type we most need in this country, the successful carrying out of which reflects most honor upon the nation.
Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, statesman, conservationist, writer, US President (1901–1909)
Speech (1899-04-10), “The Strenuous Life,” Hamilton Club, ChicagoMore about this quote: wist.info/roosevelt-theodore/1…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #teddyroosevelt #theodoreroosevelt #activity #ease #effort #freetime #idleness #indolence #labor #leisure #opportunity #personaleffort #relaxation #riches #sloth #wealth #wealthy #welloff #welltodo #work #volunteer
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A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson
Times are changed with him who marries; there are no more by-path meadows, where you may innocently linger, but the road lies long and straight and dusty to the grave. Idleness, which is often becoming and even wise in the bachelor, begins to wear a different aspect when you have a wife to support.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
Essay (1881), “Virginibus Puerisque, Part 2”More about this quote: wist.info/stevenson-robert-lou…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #robertlouisstevenson #bachelor #commitment #duty #family #independence #marriage #responsibility #support #idleness #relaxation
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Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.
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In Praise of Idleness, by Bertrand Russell
harpers.org/archive/1932/10/in…
Modern technic has made it possible for leisure, within limits, to be not the prerogative of small privileged classes, but a right evenly distributed throughout the community. The morality of work is the morality of slaves, and the modern world has no need of slavery.
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In Praise of Idleness (1932)
https://harpers.org/archive/1932/10/in-praise-of-idleness/
#HackerNews #In #Praise #of #Idleness #Idleness #Philosophy #Work-Life #Balance #1932
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Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.
-- Soren Kierkegaard⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #SorenKierkegaard #Idleness
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Pictographs #RockArt #DefianceHouse #LakePowell #Utah
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Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.
-- Soren Kierkegaard⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #SorenKierkegaard #Idleness
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #LakePowell #SlickRock #Canyon #Utah
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In the thought-provoking insights of Bertrand Russell in In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays! 📚✨ He argues that a reduction in work hours could lead to greater happiness and creativity. Imagine a world where leisure fuels culture and innovation! 🌍💡 Dive into this philosophical exploration here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Praise_of_Idleness_and_Other_Essays #BertrandRussell #Philosophy #LeisureTime #Idleness
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Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.
-- Soren Kierkegaard⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #SorenKierkegaard #Idleness
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Panopainting #Flowers #Junkyard #Minnesota
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A quotation from Joubert, Joseph:
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Idleness is a necessity for the mind, as much as work. Talent is ruined by writing too much, and rusted by not writing at all.
[L’oisiveté est nécessaire aux esprits, aussi bien que le travail. On se ruine l’esprit à trop écrire; on se rouille à n’écrire pas.]
»Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/joubert-joseph/71113/#quote #quotes #quotation #ability #art #atrophy #burnout #creativity #idleness #mind #overwork #relaxation #rest
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Doing Nothing Has Never Been More Important.
How the under-appreciated art of idleness can transform the world.
Exhortations toward work as the path to truth, meaning, virtue, and salvation suggest the contemporary valuation of work is—although not universal—more than the legacy of a single cultural tradition
https://thewalrus.ca/doing-nothing-has-never-been-more-important/ #nothing #rest #idleness
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The writer Mark Slouka counsels against filling our time with work:
#idleness is not only a psychological necessity, requisite for the construction of a complete human being;
#Idleness constitutes a kind of political space, a space as necessary for the workings of an actual democracy as, say, a free press.
Slouka expands on this claim in a provocative essay, calling idleness “unconstrained” and “anarchic.”
He suggests that idle time provides people with the chance to reflect on their values, beliefs, commitments to justice, and strategies for enacting change.
Far from an embrace of sin or a dodge of responsibility, idleness is recast as a political project
—and an unsettling one for those in power.
“All manner of things can grow out of that fallow soil,” Slouka writes,
"At rest yet restless, unoccupied yet invigorated."
Citizenship, for Slouka, especially democratic citizenship , requires time and unclaimed intellectual space in which each person can consider what they see as necessary for a flourishing society.
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For your weekend: A short vignette by the Northern Song poet, statesman, essayist, and general omnigenius Su Shi 蘇軾 (1037-1101), from another Friday night a thousand years ago.
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#BertrandRussell's essay "In #Praise of #Idleness challenges the notion that #work is inherently #virtuous and argues for a r#eduction in #working hours to four hours a day. #Russell criticizes the belief that work is inherently good and highlights the harm caused by overworking. He suggests that if everyone worked fewer hours, there would be enough for everybody without unemployment.
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A quotation from Jerome, Jerome K.:
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It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do. There is no fun in doing nothing when you have nothing to do. Wasting time is merely an occupation then, and a most exhausting one. Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen.
»Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/jerome-jermome-k/7889/#quote #quotes #quotation #avoidance #backlog #boredom #idleness #slacking #work
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Serious idleness
It seems I run from idleness. I’m fond of saying I should come with a warning—the kind one finds on the back of the driver’s-side sun-visor in a car: “Does not idle well.” It takes concerted effort for me to idle, and yet I cannot discern what it is that makes me run from idleness. But this guy? He seems to have gone all in…
‘Most of the time I don’t do anything. I am the idlest man in Paris … the only one who does less than I do is a whore without clients.’
Cioran may have been joking, but his idleness was serious business. It was an arduous lifetime project, into which he put his best efforts and which he served with complete dedication.
~ Costica Bradatan from, Learning to be a loserslip:4upyie1.
Honestly? My first thought was how does such a person support themselves? (They don’t. Others do.) After dialing down my snark, I was left noticing that there’s a sharp polarization to elevate idleness to a virtue, or to revile it as glorified laziness. Nonetheless, I must admit that to be idle requires me to first say ‘no’ to many ideas, things and opportunities. So maybe that’s the key: To be self-aware enough to thread my way between those two poles?
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Note to self: read Bertrand Russell's essay, "In praise of idleness."
https://files.libcom.org/files/Bertrand%20Russell%20-%20In%20Praise%20of%20Idleness.pdf
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We live in a society that values productivity above all else. We are expected to work hard, achieve more, and never waste time. But this is not healthy or sustainable. We need to embrace the benefits of #idleness, of doing nothing, of resting and recharging. Idleness is not a sin, it is a necessity. It allows us to be creative, to reflect, to connect with ourselves and others. #idlemode
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