Robert Maynard Hutchins (1899–1977) philosopher and university president
Great Books: The Foundation of a Liberal Education (1954)
“891. Hee hath no leisure who useth it not.”
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
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Michel De Montaigne book Essays
Book I, Ch. 42
Essais (1595), Book I
“He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate.”
Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) 1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist
“No president who performs his duties faithfully and conscientiously can have any leisure.”
James K. Polk (1795–1849) American politician, 11th President of the United States (in office from 1845 to 1849)
Diary entry (29 December 1848).
Context: No president who performs his duties faithfully and conscientiously can have any leisure. If he entrusts the details and smaller matters to subordinates constant errors will occur. I prefer to supervise the whole operations of the government myself rather than entrust the public business to subordinates, and this makes my duties very great.
“God is a foreman with certain definite views
Who orders life in shifts of work and leisure.”
Seamus Heaney book Death of a Naturalist
"Docker", line 10, from Death of a Naturalist.
Poetry Quotes, Death of a Naturalist
Nassim Nicholas Taleb book The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
Source: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010), p. 84
Josef Pieper (1904–1997) German philosopher
Source: Leisure, the Basis of Culture (1948), Leisure, the Basis of Culture, p. 31
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States
My Day (1935–1962)
Source: This is My Story
Context: If man is to be liberated to enjoy more leisure, he must also be prepared to enjoy this leisure fully and creatively. For people to have more time to read, to take part in their civic obligations, to know more about how their government functions and who their officials are might mean in a democracy a great improvement in the democratic processes. Let's begin, then, to think how we can prepare old and young for these new opportunities. Let's not wait until they come upon us suddenly and we have a crisis that we will be ill prepared to meet. (5 November 1958)
