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Josef Pieper Quotes

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 Picture Quote #1

Leisure is only possible when we are at one with ourselves. We tend to overwork as a means of self-escape, as a way of trying to justify our existence Picture Quote #1

Happiness,... even the smallest happiness, is like a step out of Time, and the greatest happiness is sharing in Eternity Picture Quote #1

Happiness is essentially a gift; we are not the forgers of our own felicity Picture Quote #1

To be conscious of gratitude is to acknowledge a gift Picture Quote #1

Only the silent hear and those who do not remain silent do not hear Picture Quote #1

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Surrender to sensuality paralyzes the powers of the moral person Picture Quote #1

The ultimate meaning of the active life is to make possible the happiness of contemplation Picture Quote #1

Repose, leisure, peace, belong among the elements of happiness. If we have not escaped from harried rush, from mad pursuit, from unrest, from the necessity of care, we are not happy. And what of contemplation? Its very premise is freedom from the fetters of workaday busyness. Moreover, it itself actualizes this freedom by virtue of being intuition Picture Quote #1

The inmost significance of the exaggerated value which is set upon hard work appears to be this: man seems to mistrust everything that is effortless; he can only enjoy, with a good conscience, what he has acquired with toil and trouble; he refused to have anything as a gift Picture Quote #1

Happiness and joy are not the same. For what does the fervent craving for joy mean? It does not mean that we wish at any cost to experience the psychic state of being joyful. We want to have reason for joy, for an unceasing joy that fills us utterly, sweeps all before it, exceeds all measure Picture Quote #1

Modern religious teaching have little or nothing to say about the place of prudence in life or in the hierarchy of virtues Picture Quote #1

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The delight we take in our senses is an implicit desire to know the ultimate reason for things, the highest cause. The desire for wisdom that philosophy etymologically is is a desire for the highest or divine causes. Philosophy culminates in theology. All other knowledge contains the seeds of contemplation of the divine Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Unless we regain the art of silence and insight, the ability for nonactivity, unless we substitute true leisure for our hectic amusements, we will destroy our culture and ourselves Picture Quote #1

Only those are called liberal or free which are concerned with knowledge; those which are concerned with utilitarian ends... are called servile... The question is... can man develop to the full as a functionary and a worker and nothing else; can a full human existence be contained within an exclusively workaday existence? Stated differently and translated back into our terms: is there such a thing as a liberal art? Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

All just order in the world is based on this, that man give man what is his due Picture Quote #1

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... the greatest menace to our capacity for contemplation is the incessant fabrication of tawdry empty stimuli which kill the receptivity of the soul Picture Quote #1

No one can obtain felicity by pursuit. This explains why one of the elements of being happy is the feeling that a debt of gratitude is owed, a debt impossible to pay. Now, we do not owe gratitude to ourselves. To be conscious of gratitude is to acknowledge a gift Picture Quote #1

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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 (Josef Pieper Quotes) Leisure is only possible when we are at one with ourselves. We tend to overwork as a means of self-escape, as a way of trying to justify our existence (Josef Pieper Quotes) Happiness,... even the smallest happiness, is like a step out of Time, and the greatest happiness is sharing in Eternity (Josef Pieper Quotes) Happiness is essentially a gift; we are not the forgers of our own felicity (Josef Pieper Quotes) To be conscious of gratitude is to acknowledge a gift (Josef Pieper Quotes) Only the silent hear and those who do not remain silent do not hear (Josef Pieper Quotes) Surrender to sensuality paralyzes the powers of the moral person (Josef Pieper Quotes) The ultimate meaning of the active life is to make possible the happiness of contemplation (Josef Pieper Quotes) Repose, leisure, peace, belong among the elements of happiness. If we have not escaped from harried rush, from mad pursuit, from unrest, from the necessity of care, we are not happy. And what of contemplation? Its very premise is freedom from the fetters of workaday busyness. Moreover, it itself actualizes this freedom by virtue of being intuition (Josef Pieper Quotes) The inmost significance of the exaggerated value which is set upon hard work appears to be this: man seems to mistrust everything that is effortless; he can only enjoy, with a good conscience, what he has acquired with toil and trouble; he refused to have anything as a gift (Josef Pieper Quotes) Happiness and joy are not the same. For what does the fervent craving for joy mean? It does not mean that we wish at any cost to experience the psychic state of being joyful. We want to have reason for joy, for an unceasing joy that fills us utterly, sweeps all before it, exceeds all measure (Josef Pieper Quotes) Modern religious teaching have little or nothing to say about the place of prudence in life or in the hierarchy of virtues (Josef Pieper Quotes) The delight we take in our senses is an implicit desire to know the ultimate reason for things, the highest cause. The desire for wisdom that philosophy etymologically is is a desire for the highest or divine causes. Philosophy culminates in theology. All other knowledge contains the seeds of contemplation of the divine (Josef Pieper Quotes) 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 (Josef Pieper Quotes) Unless we regain the art of silence and insight, the ability for nonactivity, unless we substitute true leisure for our hectic amusements, we will destroy our culture and ourselves (Josef Pieper Quotes) Only those are called liberal or free which are concerned with knowledge; those which are concerned with utilitarian ends... are called servile... The question is... can man develop to the full as a functionary and a worker and nothing else; can a full human existence be contained within an exclusively workaday existence? Stated differently and translated back into our terms: is there such a thing as a liberal art? (Josef Pieper Quotes) 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 (Josef Pieper Quotes) All just order in the world is based on this, that man give man what is his due (Josef Pieper Quotes) ... the greatest menace to our capacity for contemplation is the incessant fabrication of tawdry empty stimuli which kill the receptivity of the soul (Josef Pieper Quotes) No one can obtain felicity by pursuit. This explains why one of the elements of being happy is the feeling that a debt of gratitude is owed, a debt impossible to pay. Now, we do not owe gratitude to ourselves. To be conscious of gratitude is to acknowledge a gift (Josef Pieper Quotes)