Appeals Quote by Josef Pieper

“Beauty, however, must here be understood in its original meaning: as the glow of the true and the good irradiating from every ordered state of being, and not in the patent significance of immediate sensual appeal.”

Josef Pieper

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“Patience is not the indiscriminate acceptance of any sort of evil: "It is not the one who does not flee from evil who is…

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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 contemplation is…

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Justice is a habit (habitus), whereby a man renders to each one his due with constant and perpetual will.

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The happy life does not mean loving what we possess, but possessing what we love." Possession of the beloved, St. Thomas holds, takes place…

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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…

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What distinguishes - in both senses of that word - contemplation is rather this: it is a knowing which is inspired by love. "Without…

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To be conscious of gratitude is to acknowledge a gift.

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Surrender to sensuality paralyzes the powers of the moral person.

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