Man’s moral deeds are not more or less identifiable handholds as he scales the heights of technical accomplishment but rather are steps in his self-realization (Josef Pieper, A Brief Reader on the Virtues of the Human Heart, 17).
Month: July 2006
Knowledge and Purity
For us men and women of today, who are of the opinion that in order to know the truth one need only more or less strain one’s
brain, and who scarcely regard as sensible the concept of an ascesis of the intellect–for us, the deeply intrinsic connection that links the knowledge of truth to the condition of purity has vanished from our consciousness (Josef Pieper, A Brief Reader on the Virtues of the Human Heart, 42).
The Philosopher and the Bible
… As we were saying goodbye, Guardini made the penetrating remark that I had yet to make the “breakthrough” from philosophy to the New Testament (Josef Pieper, No One Could have Known, p. 123).