"It is by his activities and not..." - Quote by Immanuel Kant
It is by his activities and not by enjoyment that man feels he is alive. In idleness we not only feel that life is fleeting, but we also feel lifeless.
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More on Activity
“Football today is far too much a sport for the few who can play it well; the rest of us, and too many of our children, get out exercise from climbing up the seats in stadiums, or from walking across the room to turn on our television sets.”
“This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.”
“The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation, because occupation means pre-occupation; and the pre-occupied person is neither happy nor unhappy, but simply alive and active. That is why it is necessary to happiness that one should be tired.”
More on Life
“Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.”
“I dislike death, however, there are some things I dislike more than death. Therefore, there are times when I will not avoid danger.”
“I dislike modern memoirs. They are generally written by people who have either entirely lost their memories, or have never done anything worth remembering.”