A Quote by Arnold J. Toynbee
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization.
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To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.
The wise use of leisure, it must be conceded, is a product of civilization and education.
Nature herself, as has been often said, requires that we should be able, not only to work well, but to use leisure well; for, as I must repeat once again, the first principle of all action is leisure. Both are required, but leisure is better than occupation and is its end.
For the classics philosophical insight was the product of a life of leisure; for me a life of leisure is the product of philosophical insight.
Leisure is not synonymous with time. Nor is it a noun. Leisure is a verb. I leisure. You leisure.
There can be no high civilization where there is not ample leisure.
We should abolish 'work.' By that I mean abolishing the distinction between work and leisure, one of the greatest mistakes of the last century, one that enables employers to keep workers in lousy jobs by granting them some leisure time.
Rapport is the ultimate tool for producing results with other people. No matter what you want in your life, if you can develop rapport with the right people, you'll be able to fill their needs, and they will be able to fill yours.
Prosperity is an essential partner in civilization itself. It is the basis of leisure, charity, and a hopeful outlook on life. It is the means for conquering poverty at the lowest rung of society, the basis on which children and the elderly are cared for, the foundation for the cultivation of arts and learning. Crush an economy and you crush civilization.
Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest.
No country can reach a high stage of civilization without a leisure class.
Nothing created has ever been able to fill the heart of man. God alone can fill it infinitely.
Many concerns now make part or the whole of their dividends from by-products that formerly went to waste. How do we, as individuals, utilize our principal by-product? Our principal by-product is, of course, our leisure time. Many years of observation forces the conclusion that a man's success or failure in life is determined as much by how he acts during his leisure as by how he acts during his work hours. Tell me how a young man spends his evenings and I will tell you how he is likely to spend the latter part of his life.
As long as there are prisons, police, armies, navies; we are not civilized. When the Earth joins together and uses the Earth intelligently, that will be the beginning of civilization.
At the root of our civilization, there is the freedom of each person of thought, of belief, of opinion, of work, of leisure.
Each multiplex has screens allocated to each studio. The screens need filling. Studios have to create product to fill their screen, and the amount of good product is limited.
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