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Josef Pieper Quotes: 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.
         

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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... the greatest menace to our capacity for contemplation is the incessant fabrication of tawdry empty stimuli which kill the receptivity of the soul.



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Unless we regain the art of silence and insight, the ability for nonactivity, unless we substitute true leisure for our hectic amusements, we will destroy our culture and ourselves.



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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.



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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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Being precedes Truth, and ... Truth precedes the Good.



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



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