Blingley

“The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure. There will be a wide margin for relaxation to his day. He is only earnest to secure the kernels of time, and does not exaggerate the value of the husk. Why should the hen set all day? She can lay but one egg, and besides she will not have picked up materials for a new one. Those who work much do not work hard.”
― Henry David Thoreau, The Journal, 1837-1861

“Anthropologists have long known that when a tribe of people lose their feeling that their way of life is worth-while they may stop reproducing, or in large numbers simply lie down and die beside streams full of fish: food is not the primary nourishment of man.”
― Ernest Becker, The Birth and Death of Meaning: An Interdisciplinary Perspective on the Problem of Man

“To the believer, truths are a settled thing, a fact; to the freethinker, a thing that is still to be settled.”
― Max Stirner, The Ego and Its Own

“Everything sacred is a tie, a fetter.”
― Max Stirner, The Ego and Its Own