Leisure is not synonymous with
Leisure is not synonymous with time. Nor is it a noun. Leisure is a verb. I leisure. You leisure.
– Mortimer Adler
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- Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity. – Mortimer Adler
- Work is toil: what one does only to earn a living. If it gives pleasure, it is leisure. – Mortimer Adler
- Who climbs the grammar tree, distinctly knows Where noun, and verb, and participle grows. – John Dryden
- In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you. – Mortimer Adler
- Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life. – Mortimer Adler
- Leisure time is only leisure time when it is earned; otherwise, leisure time devolves into soul-killing lassitude. There’s a reason so many new retirees, freed from the treadmill of work, promptly keel over on the golf course: Work fulfills us. It keeps us going. – Ben Shapiro
- If you never ask yourself any questions about the meaning of a passage, you cannot expect the book to give you any insight you do not already possess. – Mortimer Adler
- The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live. – Mortimer Adler
- The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live. – Mortimer Adler
- The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live. – Mortimer Adler