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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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Friends, though absent, are still present.
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If there's anyone still present whom I've failed to insult . . . I apologize.
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Word is murder of a thing, not only in the elementary sense of implying its absence - by naming a thing, we…
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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…
— Josef Pieper
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Men are able to sustain a career into their 50s and 60s and still present themselves as sex symbols. With women, on…
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I prefer to write first drafts as soon as possible after waking, so that the oneiric inscape is still present to me.
— Will Self
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Together they had overcome the daily incomprehension, the instantaneous hatred, the reciprocal nastiness, and fabulous flashes of glory in the conjugal conspiracy.…
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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We are all our own graveyards, I believe; we squat amongst the tombs of the people we were. If we're healthy, every…
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By four years of age, the average child in a family receiving public assistance has heard about 13 million words, compared to…
— Sal Albanese
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Try to learn from the past when is still present. Future seems often not obey the same laws.
— Mariana Fulger
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The first day I met you, I knew in my heart we were destined to be. Your smile alone was enough to…
— Josephine
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