"Happiness is essentially a gift; we are not……" — Josef Pieper
"Happiness is essentially a gift; we are not the forgers of our own felicity."
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Josef Pieper
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29 Quotes by Josef Pieper
Josef Pieper has 29 quotes on this site.
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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…
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The common element in all the special forms of contemplation is the loving, yearning, affirming bent toward that happiness which…
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The inmost significance of the exaggerated value which is set upon hard work appears to be this: man seems to…
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If in this supreme test, in face of which the braggart falls silent and every heroic gesture is paralyzed, a…
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Happiness and joy are not the same. For what does the fervent craving for joy mean? It does not mean…
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The delight we take in our senses is an implicit desire to know the ultimate reason for things, the highest…
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The brave man uses wrath for his own act, above all in attack, 'for it is peculiar to wrath to…
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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…
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Being precedes Truth, and … Truth precedes the Good.
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Friendship is essentially a partnership.
— Aristotle
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Zionism was originally a rebellion against religious Judaism and the PLO Charter was essentially secularist. But because the conflict was…
— Karen Armstrong
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All fiction is about people, unless it's about rabbits pretending to be people. It's all essentially characters in action, which…
— Margaret Atwood
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I don't think the relationship between novels and realities are one to one. Of course novels play different roles. It's…
— Margaret Atwood
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The average Nigerian person has come to reconcile himself with the fact that his or her social progress remain essentially…
— Ibrahim Babangida
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The Christian response is contained in these two fundamental dogmas: that of the Trinity and that of the Incarnation. In…
— Hans Urs von Balthasar
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But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while…
— Honore de Balzac
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Most crime fiction, no matter how 'hard-boiled' or bloodily forensic, is essentially sentimental, for most crime writers are disappointed romantics.
— John Banville
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In art there are only fast or slow developments. Essentially it is a matter of evolution, not revolution.
— Bela Bartok
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Pride is essentially competitive in nature. We pit our will against God's.
— Ezra Taft Benson
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A drawing is essentially a private work, related only to the artist's own needs; a 'finished' statue or canvas is…
— John Berger
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Importantly, in the 1930s, in the Great Depression, the Federal Reserve, despite its mandate, was quite passive and, as a…
— Ben Bernanke
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