Quotes
Leisure is the mother of philosophy.
And further,
From this it was that the place where any of them (AB: philosophers) taught and disputed was called schola. which in their tongue signifieth leisure; and their disputations, diatribae, that is to say, passing of the time.
Thomas Hobbes
Leviathan, ch. 46
Penguin Classics, 1982
Gentelfolks in general have a very awkward rock ahead in life--the rock ahead of their own idleness. Their lives being, for the most part, passed in looking about them for something to do, it is curious to see--especially when their tastes are of what is called intellectual sort--how often they drift blindfold into some nasty pursuit. Nine times out of ten they take to torturing something, or to spoiling something--and they firmly belive they are improving their minds, when the plain truth is, they are only making a mess in the house.
Wilkie Collins
The Moonstone, p. 65
Barnes & Noble Classic, 2005
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