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....

The delight we take in our senses is an implicit desire to know the ultimate reason for things, the highest....

Happiness and joy are not the same. For what does the fervent craving for joy mean? It does not mean....

Leisure is only possible when we are at one with ourselves. We tend to overwork as a means of self-escape,....

Who among us has not suddenly looked into his child's face, in the midst of the toils and troubles of....

No one can obtain felicity by pursuit. This explains why one of the elements of being happy is the feeling....

The vacancy left by absence of worship is filled by mere killing of time and by boredom, which is directly....

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

Earthly contemplation means to the Christian, we have said, this above all: that behind all that we directly....

... the greatest menace to our capacity for contemplation is the incessant fabrication of tawdry empty....