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• Only those are called liberal or free which are concerned with knowledge; those which are concerned with utilitarian ends... are called servile...The question is... can man develop to the full as a functionary and a worker and nothing else; can a full human existence be contained within an exclusively workaday existence? Stated differently and translated back into our terms: is there such a thing as a liberal art?

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  Art, Men, Ends

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• Beauty, however, must here be understood in its original meaning: as the glow of the true and the good irradiating from every ordered state of being, and not in the patent significance of immediate sensual appeal.

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  Sensual, Patents, States

  Josef Pieper (1989). “An Anthology”, p.30, Ignatius Press

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• The essence of leisure is not to assure that we may function smoothly but rather to assure that we, embedded in our social function, are enabled to remain fully human.

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  Essence, May, Leisure

  Josef Pieper (1989). “An Anthology”, p.48, Ignatius Press

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

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  Felicity

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• ...the intemperately wrathful man is less obnoxious than the intemperately lustful one, while the immoderate pleasure-seeker, intent on dissimulation and camouflage, is unable to give or take a straight look in the eye.

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  Eye, Men, Giving

  Josef Pieper (1966). “The four cardinal virtues: prudence, justice, fortitude, temperance”, Univ of Notre Dame Pr

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

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  Joy, Attainment, Response

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• Now the code of life of the High Middle Ages said something entirely opposite to this: that it was precisely lack of leisure, an inability to be at leisure, that went together with idleness; that the restlessness of work-for-work's sake arose from nothing other than idleness. There is a curious connection in the fact that the restlessness of a self-destructive work-fanatacism should take its rise from the absence of a will to accomplish something.

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  Self, Opposites, Age

  "Leisure, the Basis of Culture" by Josef Pieper, translated by Gerald Malsbary, South Bend, Indiana: St. Augustine's Press, (p. 27), 1998.

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• ... each gratification points to the ultimate one, and that all happiness has some connection with eternal beatitude. Some connection, if only this: that every fulfillment this side of Heaven instantly reveals its inadequacy. It is immediately evident that such satisfactions are not enough; they are not what we have really sought; they cannot really satisfy us at all.

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  Heaven, Connections, Satisfaction

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• 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.

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  Special, Purpose, Elements

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

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  Men, Justice, Habit

  Josef Pieper (1966). “The four cardinal virtues: prudence, justice, fortitude, temperance”, Univ of Notre Dame Pr

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• 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.

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  Mean, Special, World

  Josef Pieper (1989). “An Anthology”, p.52, Ignatius Press

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

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  Mean, Reality, Know Me

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• 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.

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  Perfect, Doe, Way

  "Leisure, the Basis of Culture" by Josef Pieper, translated by Gerald Malsbary, South Bend, Indiana: St. Augustine's Press, (p. 106), 1998.

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

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  Men, Order, Giving

  Josef Pieper (1966). “The four cardinal virtues: prudence, justice, fortitude, temperance”, Univ of Notre Dame Pr

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• The brave man uses wrath for his own act, above all in attack, 'for it is peculiar to wrath to pounce upon evil. Thus fortitude and wrath work directly upon each other.

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  Men, Wrath, Evil

  Josef Pieper (1966). “The four cardinal virtues: prudence, justice, fortitude, temperance”, Univ of Notre Dame Pr

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• To be conscious of gratitude is to acknowledge a gift.

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  Gratitude, Grateful, Conscious

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