"To be conscious of gratitude is to acknowledge…" — Josef Pieper
"To be conscious of gratitude is to acknowledge a gift."
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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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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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Being precedes Truth, and … Truth precedes the Good.
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Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but…
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The refusal to acknowledge the scientific value of embryonic stem cell research is one more tragic misstep.
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