Joseph Pieper Quotes on Time
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 time, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Joseph Pieper:
“Hope is the virtue of the wayfarer.”
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“Leisure stands in a perpendicular position with respect to the working process — in just the same way as the "simple gaze" of intellectus does not consist in the "duration" (so to speak) of ratio' s working-out process, but instead cuts through it at the perpendicular (the ancients compared the ratio with time, the intellectus with the "always now" of eternity).”
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“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 -
“Of course in the present day […] the world of work begins to become — threatens to become — our only world, to the exclusion of all else. The demands of the working world grow ever more total, grasping ever more completely the whole of human existence.”
The Philosophical Act | pp. 64–65