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Josef Pieper has 29 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Surrender to sensuality paralyzes the powers of the moral person.
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Only the silent hear and those who do not remain silent do not hear.
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To be conscious of gratitude is to acknowledge a gift.
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Contemplation does not ignore the 'historical Gethsemane', does not ignore the mystery of evil, guilt and its bloody atonement. The happiness of…
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The common element in all the special forms of contemplation is the loving, yearning, affirming bent toward that happiness which is the…
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The inmost significance of the exaggerated value which is set upon hard work appears to be this: man seems to mistrust everything…
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If in this supreme test, in face of which the braggart falls silent and every heroic gesture is paralyzed, a man walks…
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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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Happiness is essentially a gift; we are not the forgers of our own felicity.
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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…
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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…
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If God really became incarnate, and if His Incarnation can with justice compel man to change his life,then we have no alternative…
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He gossips habitually; he lacks the common wisdom to keep still that deadly enemy of man, his own tongue.
— Mark Twain
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A warrior feeds his body well; he trains it; works on it. Where he lacks knowledge, he studies. But above all he…
— David Gemmell
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If a man is after money, he's money mad; if he keeps it, he's a capitalist; if he spends it, he's a…
— Unknown Author
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Due to his own original special nature, the Jew cannot possess a religious institution, if for no other reason because he lacks…
— Adolf Hitler
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Every theory of love, from Plato down teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in himself.
— G. Stanley Hall
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Patience attains All that it strives for. He who has God Finds he lacks nothing: God alone suffices.
— Teresa of Avila
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Irony is a disciplinarian feared only by those who do not know it, but cherished by those who do. He who does…
— Soren Kierkegaard
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He lacks much who has no aptitude for idleness.
— Louise Wilder
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No matter how brilliant a man may be, he will never engender confidence in his subordinates and associates if he lacks simple…
— J. Lawton Collins
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Fight the enemy with the weapons he lacks.
— Alexander Suvorov
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He who holds on to the Way seeks no excess. Since he lacks excess, he can grow old in no need to…
— Laozi
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Nothing about his life is more strange to [man] or more unaccountable in purely mundane terms than the stirrings he finds in…
— Lewis Mumford
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