Paradoxically, to be truly idle, you also have to be efficient.
Tom HodgkinsonTags: idleness-efficiency
Sensible people advise against drinking on an empty stomach, but to my mind it is the best sort of drinking.
Tom HodgkinsonTags: drinking
...[W]e should be mucking about all the time, because mucking about is enjoying life for its own sake, now, and not in preparation for an imaginary future. It's obvious that the mirth-filled man, the cheerful soul, the childish adult is the one who has least to fear from life.
Tom HodgkinsonTags: freedom
In a world where you are constantly asked to be 'committed,' it is liberating to give yourself the license to be a dilettante. Commit to nothing. Try everything.
Tom HodgkinsonTags: freedom
Guilt is also a way for us to express to others that we are a person of good conscience. 'I feel really guilty about getting drunk last night,' we say, when in actual fact we feel no guilt whatsoever or, at least, we could choose to feel no guilt. When people say to me, 'I drank too much last night,' I always reply, 'I drank exactly the right amount.
Tom HodgkinsonTags: conscience drinking guilt
Beauty feeds us. Anarchy is beauty. We are against the grey people. We want to decorate, like those fantastic Indian lorries which are covered with flowers. Beauty must conquer the lust for order; order is ugliness.
Tom HodgkinsonTags: beauty-anarchy
A conclusion I’ve come to at the Idler is that it starts with retreating from work but it’s really about making work into something that isn’t drudgery and slavery, and then work and life can become one thing.
Tom HodgkinsonLabour-saving devices just make us try to cram more pointless activities into each day, rather than doing the important thing, which is to enjoy our life.
Tom HodgkinsonIdleness for me is not a giving up on life but a spirited grabbing hold of it.
Tom HodgkinsonThe art of living is the art of bringing dreams and reality together.
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