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“The end of labor is to gain leisure.”

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Author:Aristotle

“Leisure is the mother of philosophy; and commonwealth, the mother of peace and leisure.”

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Book:The Essential Leviathan: A Modernized Edition

Source: The Essential Leviathan: A Modernized Edition

“A man that steps aside from the world and has leisure to observe it without interest and design, thinks all mankind as mad as they think him.”

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Author:E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

“There is no place in the world, I imagine, for a philosopher with a sense of humor, a new leisure, and an inquiring turn of mind!”

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Book:The Red Lamp

Source: The Red Lamp

“Leisure, the highest happiness upon earth, is seldom enjoyed with perfect satisfaction, except in solitude. Indolence and indifference do not always afford leisure; for true leisure is frequently found in that interval of relaxation which divides a painful duty from an agreeable recreation; a toilsome business from the more agreeable occupations of literature and philosophy.”

“Leisure is the Mother of Philosophy.”

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Book:The Essential Leviathan: A Modernized Edition

Source: The Essential Leviathan: A Modernized Edition

“Leisure can be one of the Mothers of Philosophy.”

Philosophy Mother Leisure

Author:Thomas Hobbes