“There is the increasing tension required in the conduct of business which so saps a man's energies as to leave him little of either time or inclination for the cultivation of any other than the business faculty. A tendency to revolt against this is a well-marked feature of the social life of our time. Of what use is it, ask these slaves of the ledger, to spend the greater part of a lifetime in acquiring a competency only to find after it has been acquired that its acquisition has taken all the savour of enjoyment out of life?”
Source: From Serfdom to Socialism (1907), p. 29
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Source: Death in the Afternoon (1932), Ch. 16
Book One, Chapter V.
Democracy in America, Volume II (1840), Book One
9 March 336 according to page 38 of Jews and Christians in the Holy Land: Palestine in the Fourth Century https://books.google.ca/books?id=BXuxAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA38 by Gunter Steinberger in 1999
“If you want work well done, select a busy man ‚ the other kind has no time.”
The Note Book (1927).
¶ 1
State Socialism and Anarchism: How Far They Agree, and Wherin They Differ (1888)
Context: Probably no agitation has ever attained the magnitude, either in the number of its recruits or the area of its influence, which has been attained by Modern Socialism, and at the same time been so little understood and so misunderstood, not only by the hostile and the indifferent, but by the friendly, and even by the great mass of its adherents themselves. This unfortunate and highly dangerous state of things is due partly to the fact that the human relationships which this movement — if anything so chaotic can be called a movement — aims to transform, involve no special class or classes, but literally all mankind; partly to the fact that these relationships are infinitely more varied and complex in their nature than those with which any special reform has ever been called upon to deal; and partly to the fact that the great moulding forces of society, the channels of information and enlightenment, are well-nigh exclusively under the control of those whose immediate pecuniary interests are antagonistic to the bottom claim of Socialism that labor should be put in possession of its own.
“Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form.”
Quoted in The Aging American
Un Art de Vivre (The Art of Living) (1939), The Art of Growing Old
Bk I, Ch II
The Ethics Of Aristotle (Vol. I)
