"Being precedes Truth, and … Truth precedes the…" — Josef Pieper

"Being precedes Truth, and … Truth precedes the Good."

— Josef Pieper

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29 Quotes by Josef Pieper

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…
The common element in all the special forms of contemplation is the loving, yearning, affirming bent toward that happiness which…
The inmost significance of the exaggerated value which is set upon hard work appears to be this: man seems to…
If in this supreme test, in face of which the braggart falls silent and every heroic gesture is paralyzed, a…
Happiness and joy are not the same. For what does the fervent craving for joy mean? It does not mean…
Happiness is essentially a gift; we are not the forgers of our own felicity.
The delight we take in our senses is an implicit desire to know the ultimate reason for things, the highest…
The brave man uses wrath for his own act, above all in attack, 'for it is peculiar to wrath to…
If God really became incarnate, and if His Incarnation can with justice compel man to change his life,then we have…

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