‘What is a man, if his chief good and market of his time be but to sleep and feed? A beast no more.’ - Hamlet. Act IV, Scene iv. (line 35ff)
Or to paraphrase this into more modern terms - ‘What good is a person if the best they do with their time is just to eat and sleep? They're no better than an animal.’
I’m posting this as an hors d'oeuvre; something to think about before I go further in my next post.
Remember: My aim is to think about ourselves primarily in physical terms. While there are other (non-physical) ways of thinking about this quote, in the next post I hope to be true to my intentions.
