“Leisure stands in a perpendicular position with respect to the working process — in just the same way as the "simple gaze" of intellectus does not consist in the "duration" (so to speak) of ratios working-out process, but instead cuts through it at the perpendicular (the ancients compared the ratio with time, the intellectus with the "always now" of eternity).”

—  Josef Pieper

Source: Leisure, the Basis of Culture (1948), Leisure, the Basis of Culture, p. 34

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