Full Idea
No one has the audacity to exclaim: 'I don't want to do anything!' - we are more indulgent with a murderer than with a mind emancipated from actions.
Gist of Idea
No one is brave enough to say they don't want to do anything; we despise such a view
Source
E.M. Cioran (A Short History of Decay [1949], 6 'The Architect')
Book Reference
Cioran,E.M.: 'A Short History of Decay', ed/tr. Howard,Richard [Penguin 2010], p.164
A Reaction
Perhaps this should be the anti-epigraph for this website. I've slogged away at this project for nineteen years, probably for no other reason than that inactivity appears to be wicked. If I abandoned it, I would invent another project. Sad.