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 inmost significance of the exaggerated value which is set upon hard work appears to be this: man....

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

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....

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

The common element in all the special forms of contemplation is the loving, yearning, affirming bent....

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....

The happy man needs nothing and no one. Not that he holds himself aloof, for indeed he is in harmony....