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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.

[edit] In philosophies and religions

[edit] 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).

[edit] Literature related to laziness

• 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

[edit] See also

• The Big Lebowski
• The Idler (1993)
• Acedia
• Procrastination
• Senioritis
• Couch potato
• Slacker
• Bludger

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