Josef Pieper, Happiness And Contemplation

Quotes

• “The delight we take in our senses is an implicit desire to know the ultimate reason for things, the highest cause. The d...”
• “... the greatest menace to our capacity for contemplation is the incessant fabrication of tawdry empty stimuli which kil...”
• “Happiness,... even the smallest happiness, is like a step out of Time, and the greatest happiness is sharing in Eternity...”