May 27, 2020 | Good Work, Good Work (Featured Posts), Wednesday Quotes
“In all manual work we find the primal phenomenon of culture that is human but close to nature.” “The sphere in which we live is becoming more and more artificial, less and less human,” Romano Guardini, Letters from Lake Como We have lost something today, but we can... 
Aug 14, 2019 | Good Work, Good Work (Featured Posts), Wednesday Quotes
“The hand is a tool of tools.” Aristotle, On the Soul Recently I was watching a blacksmith work. I was mesmerized. There is something so satisfying and so fitting—indeed, so human—about the ability to do that kind of work. What most struck me is how glad he must be to... 
Aug 22, 2018 | Good Work, Good Work (Featured Posts), Wednesday Quotes
“…the foundations of society were never yet shaken as they are at this day. It is not that men are ill fed, but that they have no pleasure in the work by which they make their bread, and therefore look to wealth as the only means of pleasure.” John Ruskin, ‘The Nature... 
Jul 8, 2015 | Good Work, Good Work (Featured Posts), Wednesday Quotes
“The gods keep livelihood hidden from men. Otherwise a day’s labor could bring man enough to last a whole year with no more work.” Hesiod, Works and Days In both biblical and ancient Greek accounts, work is something of an enigma. Having an aspect of punishment, it is...
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