“That happy age when a man can be idle with impunity.”
Washington Irving book The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.
"Rip Van Winkle".
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon (1819–1820)
“The imagination needs moodling,--long, inefficient happy idling, dawdling and puttering.”
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Laura Riding Jackson (1901–1991) poet, critic, novelist, essayist and short story writer
"Daisy and Venison" from Progress of Stories (Deya, Majorca: Seizin Press; London, Constable, 1935)
“Happiness is not an ideal of reason but of imagination.”
Immanuel Kant (1724–1804) German philosopher
Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Ethics (1785)
“For what imaginable purpose was man made, if not to be "happy"?”
Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher
Pt. I, Bk. II, ch. 1.
1830s, The French Revolution. A History (1837)
Context: For what imaginable purpose was man made, if not to be "happy"? By victorious Analysis, and Progress of the Species, happiness enough now awaits him. Kings can become philosophers; or else philosophers Kings. Let but Society be once rightly constituted,—by victorious Analysis. The stomach that is empty shall be filled; the throat that is dry shall be wetted with wine. Labour itself shall be all one as rest; not grievous, but joyous Wheat-fields, one would think, cannot come to grow untilled; no man made clayey, or made weary thereby;—unless indeed machinery will do it? Gratuitous Tailors and Restaurateurs may start up, at fit intervals, one as yet sees not how. But if each will, according to rule of Benevolence, have a care for all, then surely—no one will be uncared for. Nay, who knows but by sufficiently victorious Analysis, "human life may be indefinitely lengthened," and men get rid of Death, as they have already done of the Devil? We shall then be happy in spite of Death and the Devil.
“A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy.”
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn book Cancer Ward
Source: Cancer Ward
Guy De Maupassant (1850–1893) French writer
As quoted in Contemporary Portraits (1920) by Frank Harris, p. 263
Jacob Rees-Mogg (1969) British politician
Jacob Rees-Mogg says Treasury 'fiddling figures' on Brexit https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-42929071 BBC News (3 February 2018) <br class="br">2018
