"Modern religious teaching have little or nothing to……" — Josef Pieper
"Modern religious teaching have little or nothing to say about the place of prudence in life or in the hierarchy of virtues."
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29 Quotes by Josef Pieper
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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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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…
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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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More Hierarchy Quotes
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The Minnesota Republican hierarchy didn't want me to run against their incumbent in 2000; they didn't know who I was.…
— Michele Bachmann
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Man is a spiritual intelligence, who has taken flesh with the object of gaining experience in worlds below the spiritual,…
— Annie Besant
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Being a monarchist, and fawning over those 'above' you, you must naturally despise those 'below' or on the same socioeconomic…
— Julie Burchill
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Visual art and writing don't exist on an aesthetic hierarchy that positions one above the other, because each is capable…
— William S. Burroughs
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I've never been difficult to anybody or with anybody on a picture. Especially when you're in that nice status of…
— James Caan
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I've tried not to get sucked into the Hollywood hierarchy system. Personally, I don't like it when people are deferential…
— James Cameron
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There's a hierarchy in prison, and I was right at the top.
— Tommy Chong
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I've always run by the hierarchy of 'If not funny, interesting. If not interesting, hot. If not hot, bizarre. If…
— Jon Stewart
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We should always be disposed to believe that that which appears white is really black, if the hierarchy of the…
— Ignatius Loyola
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Our vision of interconnectedness resonates with new networks of world citizens in nongovernmental organizations linking from numberless centers of energy,…
— Dennis Kucinich
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Science, in its ultimate ideal, consists of a set of propositions arranged in a hierarchy, the lowest level of the…
— Bertrand Russell
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Facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories…
— Stephen Jay Gould
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