BookAges 16–18
Leisure: The Basis of Culture
Josef Pieper · 1948
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A short, dense argument that culture rests on leisure, and leisure rests on contemplation.
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“Leisure is a form of that stillness that is the necessary preparation for accepting reality; only the person who is still can hear, and whoever is not still, cannot hear.”
— Josef Pieper, Leisure: The Basis of Culture, 1948