Quotes by : Josef Pieper

A man who needs the unusual to make him "wonder" shows that he has lost the capacity to find the true....

Here we must take account of one of St. Thomas's conceptual distinctions, which at first seems like unnecessary....

What distinguishes - in both senses of that word - contemplation is rather this: it is a knowing which....

The "whole good" cannot be had, it would seem, without mustering all the strength of our inner life.....

Material things have closed boundaries; they are not accessible, cannot be penetrated, by things outside....

The ultimate meaning of the active life is to make possible the happiness of contemplation.

Happiness is essentially a gift we are not the forgers of our own felicity.

... each gratification points to the ultimate one, and that all happiness has some connection with eternal....

Happiness,... even the smallest happiness, is like a step out of Time, and the greatest happiness is....

It is possible to pray in such a way that one does not transcend the world, in such a way that the divine....