Our dreams take us into other worlds, alternative realities that help us make sense of day-to-day realities.

experiences” which you can rack up on your list of things to do before you die. That’s not really living: that is slavery with the occasional circus thrown in.

Boredom is the very opposite of beauty and truth. Life has been sacrificed to profit, and the result is boredom on a massive scale.

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...

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.

Career is just posh slavery.

…[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...

Sensible people advise against drinking on an empty stomach, but to my mind it is the best sort of drinking.

If Adam and Eve were not hunter-gatherers, then they were certainly gatherers. But, then, consumer desire, or self-embitterment, or the ‘itch,’ as Schopenhauer called it, appeared in the shape of the serpent. This capitalistic monster...

Pain will never leave us. Instead of putting energy into destroying pain, we need to put energy into creating pleasure.

Idleness for me is not a giving up on life but a spirited grabbing hold of it.

Labour-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.

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...

Therefore, the idle parent who wants to stop the whining needs to stop whining himself, and one way is to resist the call to work ever longer and harder hours. Throw your BlackBerry into the...

The art of living is the art of bringing dreams and reality together.

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