Tim Sommer
https://www.timsommer.be/
“I want to say, in all seriousness, that a great deal of harm is being done in the modern world by belief in the virtuousness of work, and that the road to happiness and prosperity lies in an organised diminution of work.”
― In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays
― In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays
“An area of land used for crops will feed about ten times as many people as the same area of land used for grass-fed beef.”
― Practical Ethics
― Practical Ethics
“The twelve labors of Hercules were trifling in comparison with those which my neighbors have undertaken; for they were only twelve, and had an end; but I could never see that these men slew or captured any monster or finished any labor.”
― Walden & Civil Disobedience
― Walden & Civil Disobedience
“Helping is not, as conventionally thought, a charitable act that is praiseworthy to do but not wrong to omit. It is something that everyone ought to do.”
― Practical Ethics
― Practical Ethics
“Well, I think the questioner wants the truth. The doubter wants to be told there aint no such thing.”
― The Sunset Limited
― The Sunset Limited
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