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Josef Pieper quotes: Happiness is essentially a gift; we are not the forgers of our own felicity.

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

Josef Pieper quotes: All just order in the world is based on this, that man give man what is his due.

All just order in the world is based on this, that man give man what is his due.

Josef Pieper quotes: The ultimate meaning of the active life is to make possible the happiness of contemplation.

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

Josef Pieper quotes: To celebrate a festival means: to live out, for some special occasion and in an uncommon manner, the universal assent to the world as a whole.

To celebrate a festival means: to live out, for some special occasion and in an uncommon manner, the universal assent to the world as a whole.

Josef Pieper quotes: Being precedes Truth, and ... Truth precedes the Good.

Being precedes Truth, and ... Truth precedes the Good.

Josef Pieper quotes: He who knows does not feel wonder. It could not be said that God experiences wonder, for God knows in the most absolute and perfect way.

He who knows does not feel wonder. It could not be said that God experiences wonder, for God knows in the most absolute and perfect way.

Josef Pieper quotes: [T]o know means to reach the reality of existing things[.]

[T]o know means to reach the reality of existing things[.]

Josef Pieper quotes: Wonder does not make one industrious, for to feel astonished is to be disturbed.

Wonder does not make one industrious, for to feel astonished is to be disturbed.

Josef Pieper quotes: Justice is a habit (habitus), whereby a man renders to each one his due with constant and perpetual will.

Justice is a habit (habitus), whereby a man renders to each one his due with constant and perpetual will.

Josef Pieper quotes: Only the silent hear and those who do not remain silent do not hear.

Only the silent hear and those who do not remain silent do not hear.

Josef Pieper quotes: Surrender to sensuality paralyzes the powers of the moral person.

Surrender to sensuality paralyzes the powers of the moral person.

Josef Pieper quotes: Modern religious teaching have little or nothing to say about the place of prudence in life or in the hierarchy of virtues.

Modern religious teaching have little or nothing to say about the place of prudence in life or in the hierarchy of virtues.

Josef Pieper quotes: Happiness, ... even the smallest happiness, is like a step out of Time, and the greatest happiness is sharing in Eternity.

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

Josef Pieper quotes: The greatest menace to our capacity for contemplation is the incessant fabrication of tawdry empty stimuli which kill the receptivity of the soul.

The greatest menace to our capacity for contemplation is the incessant fabrication of tawdry empty stimuli which kill the receptivity of the soul.

Josef Pieper quotes: The "supreme good" and its attainment that is happiness. And joy is: response to happiness.

The "supreme good" and its attainment
that is happiness. And joy is: response to happiness.