Josef Pieper Quote

It pertains to the very nature of a philosophical question that its answer will not be a "perfectly rounded truth" (as Parmenides said it), grasped in the hand like an apple plucked from a tree.


P. 63 - Leisure, the Basis of Culture (1948) - The Philosophical Act


It pertains to the very nature of a philosophical question that its answer will not be a perfectly rounded truth (as Parmenides said it), grasped in...

It pertains to the very nature of a philosophical question that its answer will not be a perfectly rounded truth (as Parmenides said it), grasped in...

It pertains to the very nature of a philosophical question that its answer will not be a perfectly rounded truth (as Parmenides said it), grasped in...

It pertains to the very nature of a philosophical question that its answer will not be a perfectly rounded truth (as Parmenides said it), grasped in...