Josef Pieper Short Quotes

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Being precedes Truth, and … Truth precedes the Good.

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Worship itself is a given — or it does not exist at all.

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Only the silent hear and those who do not remain silent do not hear.

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All just order in the world is based on this, that man give man what is his due.

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The ultimate meaning of the active life is to make possible the happiness of contemplation.

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Justice is a habit (habitus), whereby a man renders to each one his due with constant and perpetual will.

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Modern religious teaching have little or nothing to say about the place of prudence in life or in the hierarchy of virtues.

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He who knows does not feel wonder. It could not be said that God experiences wonder, for God knows in the most absolute and perfect way.

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To celebrate a festival means: to live out, for some special occasion and in an uncommon manner, the universal assent to the world as a whole.

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Wonder is defined by Thomas [Aquinas] in the Summa Theologiae [I-II, Q. 32, a. 8], as the desiderium sciendi, the desire for knowledge, active longing to know.

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The eye of perfected friendship with God is aware of deeper dimensions of reality, to which the eyes of the average man and the average Christian are not yet opened.

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The essence of leisure is not to assure that we may function smoothly but rather to assure that we, embedded in our social function, are enabled to remain fully human.

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The brave man uses wrath for his own act, above all in attack, 'for it is peculiar to wrath to pounce upon evil. Thus fortitude and wrath work directly upon each other.

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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.

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