Joseph Pieper Quotes on God
Joseph Pieper was a German Catholic philosopher and one of the most widely read twentieth-century interpreters of Thomas Aquinas. This page collects quotes attributed to Joseph Pieper on the topic of god, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Joseph Pieper:
“Worship is the source of culture, not its product.”
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“The Kerenyi quote is from Karl Kerenyi, Die antike Religion (Amsterdam, 1940), p. 66.”
Leisure lives on affirmation. It […] includes within itself a celebratory, approving, lingering gaze of the inner eye on the reality of creation. The highest form of affirmation is the festival; and according to Karl Kerenyi , the historian of religion, to festival belong "peace, intensity of life, and contemplation all at once." The holding of a festival means: an affirmation of the basic meaning -
“Since "the answers of the special sciences" do not reach "the horizon of total reality", they are given " without having to speak at the same time of 'God and the world.'”
The Philosophical Act | p. 96 -
“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.”
The Philosophical Act | p. 106 -
“Modern religious teachings have little or nothing to say about the place of prudence in life or in the hierarchy of virtues.”
The Four Cardinal Virtues: Prudence, Justice, Fortitude, Temperance(1965) -
“The eye of perfected friendship with God is aware of deeper dimensions of reality, to which the eyes of the average man and the average Christian are not yet opened.”
The Four Cardinal Virtues: Prudence, Justice, Fortitude, Temperance(1965)