Quotes About Activity

E]verything which appears in the worker as an activity of alienation , of estrangement , appears in the non-worker as a state of alienation , of estrangement .

Die Entfremdung erscheint sowohl darin, daß mein Lebensmittel eines andern ist, daß das, was mein Wunsch, der unzugängliche Besitz eines andern ist, als daß jede Sache selbst ein andres als sie selbst, als daß meine Tätigkeit ein andres, als endlich – und das gilt auch für den Kapitalisten – daß überhaupt die unmenschliche Macht her[rscht].

The highest point reached by contemplative materialism, that is, materialism which does not comprehend sensuousness as practical activity, is contemplation of single individuals and of civil society. - Theses On Feuerbach (1845)

Feuerbach, not satisfied with abstract thinking, wants contemplation; but he does not conceive sensuousness as practical, human-sensuous activity. - Theses On Feuerbach (1845)

Thinking is underrated. I don't think thinking is a popular pastime these days due to the fact there's always something else on offer that you could be doing instead. Maybe people also don't like to do it as much as it's now harder due to noise.

A comely olde man as busie as a bee.

I'm sort of an old man, always tinkering in the backyard. Since I grew up playing outdoors, I still like to plant things, sit out on the deck, or go hiking.

I don't see the point of watching men exercise.

Sport, rightly conceived, is an occupation carried out by the whole man.

Only by obedience to his genius; only by the freest activity in the way constitutional to him, does an angel seem to arise beforea man, and lead him by the hand out of all the wards of the prison.

The lot of man is ceaseless labor, Or ceaseless idleness, which is still harder.

Cheerfulness is the daughter of employment; and I have known a man come home in high spirits from a funeral, merely because he has had the management of it.

The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.

I don't go out and get arrested anymore. The most extravagant thing I do these days is play golf. I'm like an old man.

Men fall into a routine when they are tired and slack: it has all the appearance of activity with few of its burdens.

Man, being essentially active, must find in activity his joy, as well as his beauty and glory; and labor, like every thing else that is good, is its own reward.

Only when men are connected to large, universal goals are they really happy-and one result of their happiness is a rush of creative activity.

And if ye angler take fysshe; surely thenne is there noo man merier than he is in his spyryte.

It is play and only play that makes man complete.

Culture is activity of thought, and receptiveness to beauty and humane feeling. Scraps of information have nothing to do with it. A merely well informed man is the most useless bore on God's earth.

You need a new hobby, Rachel. Something other than nasty little men with visions of world domination.

Man was made for the highest activity, which is, in fact, his rest.

Generally among intelligent people are found nothing but paralytics and among men of action nothing but fools.

The man who begins to go to bed forty minutes before he opens his bedroom door is bored; that is to say, he is not living.