Common Element Quotes by Josef Pieper

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Josef Pieper has 29 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• Surrender to sensuality paralyzes the powers of the moral person.
• Only the silent hear and those who do not remain silent do not hear.
• To be conscious of gratitude is to acknowledge a gift.
• Contemplation does not ignore the 'historical Gethsemane', does not ignore the mystery of evil, guilt and its bloody atonement. The happiness of…
• The common element in all the special forms of contemplation is the loving, yearning, affirming bent toward that happiness which is the…
• The inmost significance of the exaggerated value which is set upon hard work appears to be this: man seems to mistrust everything…
• If in this supreme test, in face of which the braggart falls silent and every heroic gesture is paralyzed, a man walks…
• Happiness and joy are not the same. For what does the fervent craving for joy mean? It does not mean that we…

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