Sep 25, 2019 | The Leisure Question, Wednesday Quotes
“It is clear then that there are branches of learning and education that we must study merely with a view to leisure spent in intellectual activity, and these are to be valued for their own sake.” “And therefore our fathers admitted music into education…” Aristotle,...
Sep 18, 2019 | The Leisure Question, Wednesday Quotes
“And happiness is thought to depend on leisure; for we are busy that we may have leisure… but the activity of reason, which is contemplative, seems both to be superior in serious worth and to aim at no end beyond itself, and to have its pleasure proper to itself, and...
Sep 11, 2019 | The Leisure Question, Wednesday Quotes
“Leisure is better than work and is its end; and therefore the question must be asked, what ought we to do when at leisure? Clearly we ought not to be amusing ourselves, for then amusement would be the end of life…” Aristotle, Politics Sometimes a distinction in terms...
Sep 4, 2019 | The Leisure Question, Wednesday Quotes
“And happiness is thought to depend on leisure; for we are busy that we may have leisure…” Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics Most of us can benefit from taking some time to think about the nature of leisure and its place in our lives. Let us begin with a distinction to...
Apr 3, 2019 | Man of the Household, Man of the Household (Featured Posts), Wednesday Quotes
“When cordially united, a father and sons, or a family of brothers and sisters, may, in almost any state of life, set what is called misfortune at defiance.” William Cobbett, The Cottage Economy The other evening we sat down as a family for the first time in a few...
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