Friedrich Nietzsche
Philosopher, Writer
"Idleness is the parent of psychology."
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Idleness
43 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Hippocrates
Physician
"Idleness and lack of occupation tend - nay are dragged - towards evil."
Thomas Carlyle
Essayist, Historian, Novelist
"In idleness there is a perpetual despair."
Mahatma Gandhi
Political Leader
"Purity of mind and idleness are incompatible."
Homer
Poet
"I live an idle burden to the ground."
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"We are lazier in our minds than in our bodies."
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"Of all our faults, the one that we excuse most easily is idleness."
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"Idleness breeds our better virtues."
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"Idleness is the heaviest of all oppressions."
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"Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness."
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"Idleness is paralysis."
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"Idleness is the beginning of all psychology. What? Could it be that psychology is ? a vice?"
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"Idleness is the great plague of India."
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"Trouble Springs From Idleness."
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"I'm not a fan of idleness, except in small doses."
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"Wasting time is negative, but there is something positive about idleness."
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"Idleness ruins the constitution"
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"Love is born of idleness and, once born, by idleness is fostered."
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"Idleness induces caprice."
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"Writing is busy idleness."
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