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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| c981f78 | sembra un paradosso ma per esser davvero oziosi bisogna essere efficienti | Tom Hodgkinson | ||
| 59a02bd | It's hard to drift off into nowhereland when your arousal hormones are circulating wildly as a result of your rage at mobile-phone users. Fantasies of hurling their mobile phones from the train window tend to disturb the search for inner calm. | Tom Hodgkinson | ||
| 2ab3697 | the fat cats used to send us into the mills to make their millions, and now they send us to the shopping centres. | Tom Hodgkinson | ||
| b81d19a | If we realized that meditation simply means staring into space, then it would be more accessible to more people. It's easy. A window is all you need. I remember being at school and being able to spend 20 minutes straight just staring out of the window. This is meditation, although my teachers called it daydreaming. Windows are free, and they are everywhere. They are on trains, on the top deck of buses, and most houses have loads of them. Re.. | Tom Hodgkinson | ||
| d05ed4c | You don't get ads on the Underground saying: "Tired? Then Sleep More," as no one has figured out how to make money this way." | Tom Hodgkinson | ||
| f9c4dc0 | Martin also reveals the many scientific studies that have shown the benefits of long sleeping and napping to our health and happiness, and also shows how major disasters such as Chernobyl, and smaller ones such as train and motorway crashes, were caused by lack of sleep. Chasing profit leads to lack of sleep, and lack of sleep can lead to death. | Tom Hodgkinson | ||
| 97e2464 | The moon and the stars are soothing constants in an idler's life. | Tom Hodgkinson | ||
| 6e9cbb6 | Their contemplation seems to reconnect us with a childlike sense of wonder at the mysteries of the universe. They are literally other-worldly, and so remove us from the world and its cares; they lift us off the ground. | Tom Hodgkinson | ||
| a38b542 | The stars are a tantalizing mystery. And the great thing is that the stars are free, in that they cost nothing to watch, and can be seen from anywhere by anyone. | Tom Hodgkinson | ||
| ead0575 | We feel small under the stars, yet paradoxically we feel more ourselves. We are who we are. | Tom Hodgkinson | ||
| c270e46 | 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 noble and right, pleasurable and productive. | Tom Hodgkinson | ||
| d6cf99d | 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. How much easier it is to work in the morning if we know we have a nap to look forward to after lunch; and how much more pleasant the late afternoon and evening become after a little sleep. | Tom Hodgkinson | ||
| b27f9c1 | The pedestrian is the highest and most mighty of beings; he walks for pleasure, he observes but does not interfere, he is not in a hurry, he is happy in the company of his own mind, he wanders detached, wise and merry, godlike. He is free. | Tom Hodgkinson | ||
| 01c52b8 | The tempo of modern life is such that we are giving less and less time and thought to the matter of cooking and feeding . . . it is a pretty crazy life when one eats to work and does not work in order to eat. | Tom Hodgkinson | ||
| 591e959 | How much more fun life must have been when we went around on horses, chatting to strangers, leaning over gates, leaping over fences, singing with joy, being at one with nature, its animals and its weather. | Tom Hodgkinson | ||
| f46642e | You must find out who you are and proceed on the basis of that knowledge. | Tom Hodgkinson | ||
| 643bc92 | This is possibly what drove Amy Winehouse and Kurt Cobain to early graves. They could not handle being cogs. They could not handle monetizing their content. That was not the reason they become bohemian singers. | Tom Hodgkinson | ||
| 95351b4 | But if you don't address financial issues in a grown-up fashion, you'll end up poor, which is no fun at all. | Tom Hodgkinson | ||
| 6fb043b | A diet of solely mental work is suffocating. | depression modern-life | Tom Hodgkinson | |
| 9f73386 | Screens make us into passive receivers. Smash the screen and find a pencil and a piece of paper instead. | Tom Hodgkinson | ||
| 0a04923 | My studies about independence happily led me to the writings of Tom Hodgkinson and his cohorts at The Idler. This bright group of philosophers, writers, teachers and layabouts taught me so much about letting go of my preconceived ideas of a successful life. | Meredith Bell | ||
| 54abb13 | Making stuff is easy. Selling it is not. | Tom Hodgkinson | ||
| 217f695 | If you're not very careful, your creative business, the very thing which you hoped would lead to liberty and riches, will instead trap you in a hell of hard-working poverty. | Tom Hodgkinson | ||
| 3bea5b5 | August 23, 1793. (THE LIBRARY COMPANY OF PHILADELPHIA) | Jim Murphy | ||
| 93b3175 | The purpose of aphorisms is to keep fools who have memorised them from having nothing to say. | Aphorisms | ||
| 90af1d5 | Aphorisms are bad for novels. They stick in the reader's teeth. | Aphorisms | ||
| dae9bef | Inspired by these meetings, Franklin created a scheme in which the Junto members would contribute funds toward buying books that all members could use. This model soon grew beyond Franklin's Friday evening gatherings, leading him in 1731 to write the charter for the Library Company of Philadelphia, one of the first subscription libraries in America. | Cal Newport | ||
| e76620a | Until the Civil War there was scarcely a man in public life in New Orleans or Louisiana who had not fought at least one duel; most of them had engaged in several. | louisiana new-orleans | Herbert Asbury | |
| db27f29 | Brave men don't fight for nothing, like children.' protested Howell's (Major Joe Howell) friend. 'We want to know what we are fighting about. If we are wrong we may apologize. | colonel-henry duels major-joe-howell mrs-jefferson-davis new-orleans-french-quarter | Herbert Asbury | |
| 3877f3b | Philadelphia was a cosmopolitan city, praised by a highborn British visitor as "one of the wonders of the world," "the first town in America," and one that "bids fair to rival almost any in Europe."27 Larger than either New York or Boston, it supported ten newspapers and thirty bookshops. Largely through the civic imagination of Benjamin Franklin, it boasted an astounding panoply of cultural and civic institutions, including two theaters, a.. | Ron Chernow | ||
| 3a8a4a6 | The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other very well. | Aphorisms | ||
| f383b01 | In an aphorism, aptness counts for more than truth. | Aphorisms | ||
| c57b7fd | Fair Maiden Lilliard lies under this stane, Little was her stature but great was her fame; Upon the English loons she laid many thumps, And when her legs were cuttied off she fought upon her stumps. | Nigel Tranter | ||
| 37bab90 | Aphorisms are not true or false, but pointed or flat. | Aphorisms | ||
| bd94a9b | An aphorism that does not score is just one more sentence. | Aphorisms | ||
| c70546a | An aphorism is a truth set apart for its pointedness and excellence. | Aphorisms | ||
| bb66d70 | An aphorism is a name but every name can take on the figure of aphorism. | Aphorisms | ||
| 4f5f1bb | I've always felt aphorisms as reminders, gongs-in-words. | Aphorisms | ||
| e90ef99 | An aphorism is the last link in a long chain of thought. | Aphorisms | ||
| f32b9ee | Windbags can be right. Aphorists can be wrong. It is a tough world. | Aphorisms | ||
| 98b73c9 | An aphorism is a generalization, therefore not modern. | Aphorisms | ||
| b3a43f6 | For the aphorist, I think, seeing something and saying something are the same thing. | Aphorisms | ||
| 5331d54 | You don't go to the ass; you go to the head. | Aphorisms | ||
| 46521dd | An aphorism never coincides with the truth: it is either a half-truth or one-and-a-half truths. | Aphorisms |