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• The inmost significance of the exaggerated value which is set upon hard work appears to be this: man seems to mistrust everything that is effortless; he can only enjoy, with a good conscience, what he has acquired with toil and trouble; he refused to have anything as a gift.

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  Hard Work, Men, Toil

  Josef Pieper (2015). “Leisure: The Basis of Culture”, p.22, Ignatius Press

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• 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 contains the seeds of contemplation of the divine.

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  Philosophy, Desire, Causes

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• Contemplation does not ignore the 'historical Gethsemane', does not ignore the mystery of evil, guilt and its bloody atonement. The happiness of contemplation is a true happiness, indeed the supreme happiness; but it is founded upon sorrow.

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  Evil, Historical, Sorrow

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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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• Happiness and joy are not the same. For what does the fervent craving for joy mean? It does not mean that we wish at any cost to experience the psychic state of being joyful. We want to have reason for joy, for an unceasing joy that fills us utterly, sweeps all before it, exceeds all measure.

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  Mean, Psychics, Joy

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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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• 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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• ... 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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