35 quotes found
Writer · British
British writer
“All of our technology is completely unnecessary to a happy life.”
“We have to wonder whether digital technology, rather than making it easier to communicate, is actually doing the opposite. We now sit alone at a keyboard, firing off zeros and ones into the ether. ...”
“Poetry, being supremely useless, by its very existence represents a protest against the so-called 'real world' of busy-ness and moneymaking, so we must embrace, salute and support our poets.”
“Long weekends at festivals, short weeks at home, all summer long: now that is surely preferable to the immense cost and headache of the nuclear family holiday in the sun?”
“Sensible people advise against drinking on an empty stomach, but to my mind it is the best sort of drinking.”
“Boredom is the very opposite of beauty and truth. Life has been sacrificed to profit, and the result is boredom on a massive scale.”
“What is required as we travel towards full unemployment is not new legislation but a gradual change of mental attitude, a shift in values. As our taste for idling grows, we will refuse to work for ...”
“The art of living is the art of bringing dreams and reality together.”
“Our dreams take us into other worlds, alternative realities that help us make sense of day-to-day realities.”
“A conclusion I’ve come to at the Idler is that it starts with retreating from work but it’s really about making work into something that isn’t drudgery and slavery, and then work and life can becom...”
“It is a common myth that idlers are incapable of working. The term idler is used as a pejorative by the forces of dullness and authority as they like the idea that idleness equates to evil, and the...”
“Another characteristic of the idler's work is that it looks suspiciously like play. This, again, makes the non-idler feel uncomfortable. Victims of the Protestant work ethic would like all work to ...”
“The reason laziness is rarely pushed as a lifestyle option is down to one simple reason: money. There are fortunes to be made out of active lifestyles. Gyms charge fees. But no one is going to make...”
“All of our technology is completely unnecessary to a happy life”
“When walking, you see things that you miss in a motor car or on the train. You give your mind space to ponder”
