The "whole good" cannot be had, it would seem, without mustering all the strength of our inner life. Even in the sphere of external possessions there are goods which inherently demand, if they are to be truly ours, far more of us than mere acquisition. "'My garden, ' the rich man said; his gardener smiled. Josef Pieper
Risk means 'shit happens' or 'good luck
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Toba Beta
It was the moment I realized what music can do to people, how it can make you hurt and feel so good all at once.
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Nina Lacour
Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards.
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Diogenes Of Sinope
Everything in life has some good in it. And when something awful happens, the goodness stands out even more--it's sad, but that's the truth.
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Banana Yoshimoto
The thing about lying to your parents is, you have to do it to protect them. It’s for their own good.
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Sophie Kinsella
More Quotes By Josef Pieper
The delight we take in our senses is an implicit desire to know the ultimate reason for things, the highest cause. The desire for wisdom that philosophy etymologically is is a desire for the highest or divine causes. Philosophy culminates in theology. All other knowledge...
Earthly contemplation means to the Christian, we have said, this above all: that behind all that we directly encounter the Face of the incarnate Logos becomes visible.. Contemplation does not ignore the "historical Gethsemane, " does not ignore the mystery of evil, guilt and its...
Who among us has not suddenly looked into his child's face, in the midst of the toils and troubles of everyday life, and at that moment "seen" that everything which is good, is loved and lovable, loved by God! Such certainties all mean, at bottom,...
Here we must take account of one of St. Thomas's conceptual distinctions, which at first seems like unnecessary caviling. It is the distinction between "uncreated" and "created" happiness. We have here something which, while not at all obvious, is nevertheless fraught with consequences for our...
The common element in all the special forms of contemplation is the loving, yearning, affirming bent toward that happiness which is the same as God Himself, and which is the aim and purpose of all that happens in the world.
