Famous Josef Pieper Quotes
Source: Leisure, the Basis of Culture (1948), Leisure, the Basis of Culture, p. 27
The Four Cardinal Virtues: Prudence, Justice, Fortitude, Temperance (1965)
“All just order in the world is based on this, that man give man what is his due.”
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The Four Cardinal Virtues: Prudence, Justice, Fortitude, Temperance (1965)
Source: Leisure, the Basis of Culture (1948), The Philosophical Act, p. 106
The Four Cardinal Virtues: Prudence, Justice, Fortitude, Temperance (1965)
Josef Pieper Quotes about the world
Source: Leisure, the Basis of Culture (1948), The Philosophical Act, pp. 64–65
Source: Leisure: The Basis Of Culture
Source: Leisure, the Basis of Culture (1948), The Philosophical Act, pp. 66—67
Source: Leisure, the Basis of Culture (1948), The Philosophical Act, pp. 127–128
The "interpretation of Plato" referred to is that of Gerhard Krüger, Einsicht und Leidenschaft (Frankfurt, 1939), p. 301.
Source: Leisure, the Basis of Culture (1948), Leisure, the Basis of Culture, pp. 3–4
Source: Leisure, the Basis of Culture (1948), The Philosophical Act, pp. 101–102
Source: Leisure, the Basis of Culture (1948), Leisure, the Basis of Culture, pp. 50–51
Josef Pieper Quotes
The Four Cardinal Virtues: Prudence, Justice, Fortitude, Temperance (1965)
Source: Leisure, the Basis of Culture (1948), Leisure, the Basis of Culture, pp. 4–5
Source: Leisure, the Basis of Culture (1948), Leisure, the Basis of Culture, p. 9
The Ernst Jünger quote is from Blätter und Steine (Hamburg, 1934), p. 202.
Source: Leisure, the Basis of Culture (1948), The Philosophical Act, P. 63
“Worship itself is a given — or it does not exist at all.”
Source: Leisure, the Basis of Culture (1948), Leisure, the Basis of Culture, p. 59
Source: Leisure, the Basis of Culture (1948), The Philosophical Act, p. 94
Source: Leisure, the Basis of Culture (1948), Leisure, the Basis of Culture, p. 20
Source: Leisure, the Basis of Culture (1948), The Philosophical Act, p. 63
But man is not made to live "out there" permanently! Certainly, it is a more valuable question, as such, to ask about the whole world and the ultimate nature of things. But the answer is not as easily forthcoming as for the special sciences!
The Dilthey quote is from Briefwechsel zwischen Wilhelm Dilthey und dem Grafen Paul Yorck v. Wartenberg, 1877–1897 (Hall/Salle, 1923), p. 39.
Source: Leisure, the Basis of Culture (1948), The Philosophical Act, pp. 109–111
Source: Leisure, the Basis of Culture (1948), The Philosophical Act, pp. 67–68
The Goethe quote is from his Maximen und Reflexionen, ed. Günther Müller (Stuttgart, 1943), no. 1415. The other quote is from Hermann Rauschning's Conversations with Hitler (Gespräche mit Hitler, 1940).
Source: Leisure, the Basis of Culture (1948), Leisure, the Basis of Culture, p. 14
Source: Leisure, the Basis of Culture (1948), Leisure, the Basis of Culture, p. 34
The Four Cardinal Virtues: Prudence, Justice, Fortitude, Temperance (1965)
conforms to the concrete situation in which the decision must be made.
The Four Cardinal Virtues: Prudence, Justice, Fortitude, Temperance (1965)
Source: Leisure, the Basis of Culture (1948), Leisure, the Basis of Culture, pp. 33–34
The Kerenyi quote is from Karl Kerenyi, Die antike Religion (Amsterdam, 1940), p. 66.
Source: Leisure, the Basis of Culture (1948), The Philosophical Act, p. 102
Since "the answers of the special sciences" do not reach "the horizon of total reality", they are given "without having to speak at the same time of 'God and the world.'" (p. 96)
Source: Leisure, the Basis of Culture (1948), The Philosophical Act, p. 95
Nichomachean Ethics X, 7 (1177b27–28)
Source: Leisure, the Basis of Culture (1948), Leisure, the Basis of Culture, p. 36
if he does depart from his state of wonder, he has ceased to philosophize.
Source: Leisure, the Basis of Culture (1948), The Philosophical Act, pp. 105–106
Source: Leisure, the Basis of Culture (1948), Leisure, the Basis of Culture, p. 50
Source: Leisure, the Basis of Culture (1948), Leisure, the Basis of Culture, p. 53
The Four Cardinal Virtues: Prudence, Justice, Fortitude, Temperance (1965)
Source: Leisure, the Basis of Culture (1948), The Philosophical Act, pp. 106–107
Source: Leisure, the Basis of Culture (1948), Leisure, the Basis of Culture, p. 31
Source: Leisure, the Basis of Culture (1948), Leisure, the Basis of Culture, p. 11
“Being precedes Truth, and … Truth precedes the Good.”
The Four Cardinal Virtues: Prudence, Justice, Fortitude, Temperance (1965)
Source: Leisure, the Basis of Culture (1948), The Philosophical Act, pp. 65–66
Source: Leisure, the Basis of Culture (1948), The Philosophical Act, pp. 68–69
The Aquinas quote cited — "The reason why the philosopher can be compared to the poet is that both are concerned with wonder" — is the epigraph of "The Philosophical Act".
Source: Happiness and Contemplation (1958), p. 58
In the three rhetorical questions that end this quote, Pieper alludes to the Nazis' elaborately stage-managed "festivals", in particular the Nuremberg Rally, the subject of Leni Riefenstahl's classic propaganda documentary, Triumph of the Will.
Source: Leisure, the Basis of Culture (1948), Leisure, the Basis of Culture, pp. 51–52
Source: Leisure, the Basis of Culture (1948), The Philosophical Act, p. 109
do something else.
Source: Leisure, the Basis of Culture (1948), Leisure, the Basis of Culture, p. 58
“The essence of happiness consists in an act of the intellect.”
(Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica) … What is implicit in this sentence? This is implicit: the fulfillment of existence takes place in the manner in which we become aware of reality; the whole energy of our being is ultimately directed toward attainment of insight. The perfectly happy person, the one whose thirst has been finally quenched, who has attained beatitude—this person is the one who sees. The happiness, the quenching, the perfection, consists in this seeing.
Source: Happiness and Contemplation (1958), p. 58