The ultimate meaning of the active life is to make possible the happiness of contemplation.
Being precedes Truth, and ... Truth precedes the Good. - Josef Pieper
Being precedes Truth, and ... Truth precedes the Good.
- Josef Pieper
The happy man needs nothing and no one. Not that he holds himself aloof, for indeed he is in harmony with everything and everyone; everything is "in … - Josef Pieper
The happy man needs nothing and no one. Not that he holds himself aloof, for indeed he is in harmony with everything and everyone; everything is "in …
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 longin… - Josef Pieper
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 longin…
Unchaste abandon and the self-surrender of the soul to the world of sensuality paralyzes the primordial powers of the moral person: the ability to pe… - Josef Pieper
Unchaste abandon and the self-surrender of the soul to the world of sensuality paralyzes the primordial powers of the moral person: the ability to pe…
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 existenc… - Josef Pieper
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 existenc…
Only the silent hear and those who do not remain silent do not hear. - Josef Pieper
Only the silent hear and those who do not remain silent do not hear.
What distinguishes - in both senses of that word - contemplation is rather this: it is a knowing which is inspired by love. "Without love there would… - Josef Pieper
What distinguishes - in both senses of that word - contemplation is rather this: it is a knowing which is inspired by love. "Without love there would…
Unless we regain the art of silence and insight, the ability for nonactivity, unless we substitute true leisure for our hectic amusements, we will de… - Josef Pieper
Unless we regain the art of silence and insight, the ability for nonactivity, unless we substitute true leisure for our hectic amusements, we will de…
Of course the world of work begins to become - threatens to become - our only world, to the exclusion of all else. The demands of the working world g… - Josef Pieper
Of course the world of work begins to become - threatens to become - our only world, to the exclusion of all else. The demands of the working world g…
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