Active men are generally wanting in the higher activity: I mean that of the individual. They are active as officials, businessmen that is to say as generic creatures, but not as distinct individual and unique human beings; in his regard they are lazy. - It is the misfortune of the active that their activity is always a little irrational. One ought not to ask the cash - amassing banker, for example, what the purpose os his restless activity is: it is irrational. The active roll as the stone rolls, in obedience to the stupidity of the laws of mechanics. - As at all times, so now too, men are divided into the slaves and the free.
The idle man is always a better man than the active. - But when I speak of leisure and idleness, you do not think I am alluding to you, do you, you sluggards?
Friedrich Nietzsche
1844 - 1900
