What a beautiful quote! (On maintaining the space between a life of labor and a life of constant amusement which is leisure). "Leisure - the word from which our word "school" is derived - was for the Greek the expression of the highest moments of the mind. It was not labor; far less was it recreation. It was that employment of the mind in which by great thoughts, by art and poetry which lift us above ourselves, by the highest exertion of the intelligence, as we should add, by religion, we obtain occasionally a sense of something that cannot be taken from us, a real oneness and centre in the universe; and which makes us feel that whatever happens to the present form of our little ephemeral personality, life is yet worth living because it has a real and sensible contact with something of eternal value." -Bernard Bosanquet
Posted on: Sat, 17 Aug 2013 01:06:57 +0000
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