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The state or quality of being lazy.
Laziness travels so slowly, that Poverty soon overtakes him.Franklin.
Laziness
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- The quality or state of being lazy: idleness, indolence, shiftlessness, sloth, slothfulness, sluggardness, sluggishness. Informal do-nothingism. See industrious/lazy.
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Definition: unwillingness to work, be active
Antonyms: activity, diligence, energy, hard work, industriousness, industry, liveliness, willingness
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A cynical view of the world by Ambrose Bierce
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Unwarranted repose of manner in a person of low degree.
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IN BRIEF: n. - Apathy and inactivity in the practice of virtue (personified as one of the deadly sins); Relaxed and easy activity; Inactivity resulting from a dislike of work.
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"It is better to sit down than to stand, it is better to lie down than to sit, but death is the best of all."
- Indian Proverb
"Sloth is the key to poverty."
- Proverb
"Absorption in ease is one of the most reliable signs of present or impending decay."
- Richard Weaver
"We have so many labor-saving devices today that we go broke keeping them repaired. Everything is easier, but requires greater maintenance."
- Lorne Sanny
"Towards evening the lazy person begins to get busy."
- German Proverb
"The idle always have a mind to do something."
- Marquis De Vauvenargues
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Laziness (also called indolence) is a disinclination to activity or exertion despite having the ability to do so. It is often used as a pejorative. Chronic laziness may be an underlying psychological condition.
Feelings of laziness may be a symptom of clinical depression or listlessness.
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Intellectual laziness
The expression "intellectual laziness" is used[by whom?] to describe a tendency not to ask questions or investigate thoroughly, applying a kind of mental routine (availability heuristic) or just following the crowd (herd behavior).
In philosophies and religions
Christianity
One of the seven deadly sins in Christian thought is sloth, which is often defined as spiritual and/or physical apathy or laziness. Sloth is recommended against in the Letter to the Hebrews (Hebrews 6:12), and associated with wickedness in one of the parables of Jesus in the Gospel of Matthew (Matthew 25:26). In the Wisdom books of Proverbs and Ecclesiastes, it is stated that laziness can lead to poverty (Proverbs 10:4, Ecclesiastes 10:18).
- Carl Honore: In Praise of Slowness, 2005, ISBN 0-06-075051-0
- Paul Lafargue (transl. Len Bracken): The Right To Be Lazy (1883) ISBN 1-892355-03-5
- Corinne Maier:
- Hello Laziness! - Why Hard Work Doesn't Pay, 2005, ISBN 0-7528-7186-2
- Bonjour Laziness! - How to Work as Little as Possible (Just Like the French), 2005, ISBN 0-375-42373-7
- Bonjour paresse - De l'art et la nécessité d'en faire le moins possible en entreprise, 2004, ISBN 2-84186-231-3
- Bertrand Russell: In Praise of Idleness - And Other Essays, 1935, ISBN 0-415-32506-4
- John Steinbeck: The Log from the Sea of Cortez, 1951, ISBN 0141186070.
- "Only in laziness can one achieve a state of contemplation which is a balancing of values, a weighing of oneself against the world, and the world against itself."
- Tom Hodgkinson: How To Be Free, 2006, ISBN 0-241-14321-7
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