“Wonder is defined by Thomas [Aquinas] in the Summa Theologiae [I-II, Q. 32, a. 8], as the desiderium sciendi, the desire for knowledge, active longing to know.”

—  Josef Pieper

Source: Leisure, the Basis of Culture (1948), The Philosophical Act, pp. 106–107

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