Josef Pieper quote: "That is what is meant by the proposition omne ens est verum (everything that is, is true)—though we have almost ceased to understand it—and by the complementary proposition that being and truth are interchangeable concepts. (What does truth mean, where things are concerned, the truth of things? “A thing is true” means: it is known and knowable, known to the absolute spirit, knowable to the spirit that is not absolute."

Leisure is only possible when we are at one with ourselves. We tend to overwork as a means of self-e...
JOSEF PIEPER

To be just meaans to recognize the other as other; it means to give acknowledgment even where one ca...
JOSEF PIEPER

Happiness,... even the smallest happiness, is like a step out of Time, and the greatest happiness is...
JOSEF PIEPER

Repose, leisure, peace, belong among the elements of happiness. If we have not escaped from harried ...
JOSEF PIEPER

for where the religions spirit is not tolerated, where there is no room for poetry and art, where lo...
JOSEF PIEPER

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

The contemplation of revealed truth is a disturbing element in Christian philosophy though a very be...
JOSEF PIEPER

It is possible to pray in such a way that one does not transcend the world, in such a way that the d...
JOSEF PIEPER

Divine worship means the same thing where time is concerned, as the temple where space is concerned....
JOSEF PIEPER

Wonder does not make one industrious, for to feel astonished is to be disturbed.
JOSEF PIEPER

Only those are called liberal or free which are concerned with knowledge; those which are concerned ...
JOSEF PIEPER

A man who needs the unusual to make him "wonder" shows that he has lost the capacity to find the tru...
JOSEF PIEPER

If to know is to work, then knowledge is the fruit of our own unaided effort and activity; then know...
JOSEF PIEPER

The vacancy left by absence of worship is filled by mere killing of time and by boredom, which is di...
JOSEF PIEPER

The inmost significance of the exaggerated value which is set upon hard work appears to be this: man...
JOSEF PIEPER

Wonder acts upon a man like a shock, he is "moved" and "shaken", and in the dislocation that succeed...
JOSEF PIEPER

Of course the world of work begins to become - threatens to become - our only world, to the exclusio...
JOSEF PIEPER

The "whole good" cannot be had, it would seem, without mustering all the strength of our inner life....
JOSEF PIEPER

Material things have closed boundaries; they are not accessible, cannot be penetrated, by things out...
JOSEF PIEPER

Who among us has not suddenly looked into his child's face, in the midst of the toils and troubles o...
JOSEF PIEPER

Strategically, VW can benefit from Porsche as a very close partner. Porsche can offer Volkswagen hig...
JUERGEN PIEPER

Every company has certain problems. They're not in good shape, but thanks to Audi at Volkswagen, and...
JUERGEN PIEPER

There's a kind of cultural revolution going on at Volkswagen and Mercedes. They're doing much more t...
JUERGEN PIEPER

Chrysler is doing well because of a massive restructuring two to four years ago, and thanks to inves...
JUERGEN PIEPER

If your partner is not willing, then you are not really losing anything. I think VW will eventually ...
JUERGEN PIEPER

The recent strong rise in German car sales suggests that consumers are finally replacing their aged ...
JUERGEN PIEPER

One death is a tragedy. A million deaths is a statistic.
JOSEF STALIN

The Pope? How many divisions has he got?
JOSEF STALIN

Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.
JOSEF STALIN

America is like a healthy body and its resistance is threefold: its patriotism, its morality and its...
JOSEF STALIN

History shows that there are no invincible armies.
JOSEF STALIN

When we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope we use.
JOSEF STALIN

Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited; and to abstract oneself f...
JOSEF STALIN

Gratitude is a sickness suffered by dogs.
JOSEF STALIN

It was my family that wanted me to be a teacher. That was safe, you see. To be a painter was terribl...
JOSEF ALBERS

It is not so for art in appreciation because art is concerned with human behavior. And science is co...
JOSEF ALBERS

On the little money I had collected I lived in Berlin very cheaply, ate very cheaply. And already in...
JOSEF ALBERS

I've handled colour as a man should behave. You may conclude that I consider ethics and aestheti...
JOSEF ALBERS

Apprentice is the beginner - the first years you work in a craft in the European sense you are an ap...
JOSEF ALBERS

The aim of our studies is to prove that color is the most relative means of artistic expression, tha...
JOSEF ALBERS

Ah, the creative process is the same secret in science as it is in art. They are all the same absolu...
JOSEF ALBERS

I have taught my students not to apply rules or mechanical ways of seeing.
JOSEF ALBERS

I have invented the Thermometer style.
JOSEF ALBERS

I do not consider self-expression as important. It's not important as a method of teaching. And it's...
JOSEF ALBERS

I count all the time on resonance. I call on this, you see.
JOSEF ALBERS

As basic rules of a language must be practiced continually, and therefore are never fixed, so exerci...
JOSEF ALBERS

Any ground subtracts its own hue from the colors which it carries and therefore influences.
JOSEF ALBERS

Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature.
JOSEF ALBERS

We want to grow organically,
JOSEF ACKERMANN

The time has come for concerted action to share the burden of adjustment and maximize the benefits t...
JOSEF ACKERMANN

Maybe we are in a grace period.
JOSEF ACKERMANN

Consolidation is not a goal in itself and must bring an advantage for investors,
JOSEF ACKERMANN

We want to be the leading investment bank in the world,
JOSEF ACKERMANN

It appears that the European Union and other Basel Committee member countries are on course to launc...
JOSEF ACKERMANN

Our objective now is to sustain, over the cycle, this level of pretax return on equity and double-di...
JOSEF ACKERMANN

Today's uncertainties call for vigilance by the authorities in both mature and emerging market econo...
JOSEF ACKERMANN

The strong flows of international capital into emerging markets reflect a number of important trends...
JOSEF ACKERMANN

In the third quarter 2005, we produced our best third-quarter result ever,
JOSEF ACKERMANN

And I started with this: I have not painted at all my childhood. In fact, I never painted. But I hel...
JOSEF ALBERS

The people who cast the votes don't decide an election, the people who count the votes do.
JOSEF STALIN

Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them ha...
JOSEF STALIN

Print is the sharpest and the strongest weapon of our party.
JOSEF STALIN

When we are honest - that's my saying - if we are honest then we will reveal ourselves. But we d...
JOSEF ALBERS

Und wenn ich morgens auf meinem aus dem georgischen Dorf Besch-taschen stammenden Gebetsteppich knie...
JOSEF WINKLER

In visual perception a color is almost never seen as it really is - as it physically is. This fact m...
JOSEF ALBERS

When I came from horizontal vertical straight all old stuff then suddenly I go also again in curved ...
JOSEF ALBERS

I was never a child who was sitting on his lap.
JOSEF STALIN

One death is a tragedy. A million deaths is a statistic
JOSEF STALIN

I want a new invincible human being, insensitive to pain, resistant and indifferent about the qualit...
JOSEF STALIN

When the game was going, I was warmer and warmer. He kept looking at me, like, 'Is the knee all righ...
JOSEF VASICEK

I was at the Royal Art School. That was a preparatory school specially for art teachers. You see, it...
JOSEF ALBERS

Simultaneous contrast is not just a curious optical phenomenon - it is the very heart of painting.
JOSEF ALBERS

Traditionally art is to create and not to revive. To revive: leave that to the historians, who are l...
JOSEF ALBERS

Lovers of literature will look for the remains of the golden treasure in that shipwreck on the botto...
JOSEF SKVORECKY

It feels good. Obviously, there's a little pain. Mobility-wise and stability-wise, it feels pretty g...
JOSEF VASICEK

After five months, spending time on the bike, it was just something special.
JOSEF VASICEK

may deserve it, of course they may for doing something heinous, they don't deserve to live in civili...
JOSEF STALIN

There is something that falls short of perfection in every book, without exception, something influe...
JOSEF SKVORECKY

There could have been some background to the rumor. And if not, Burma right now is at a point where ...
JOSEF SILVERSTEIN

The Burmese are retreating from the outside world. They are isolating themselves in a bunker mentali...
JOSEF SILVERSTEIN

When the techs in the States went, the Canadians backed off as well. The whole falloff late in the d...
JOSEF SCHACHTER

People are beginning to believe more and more there will be a rate cut and that Greenspan's testimon...
JOSEF SCHACHTER

The big thing was the U.S. market had a good day today.
JOSEF SCHACHTER

This whole thing is, everybody's waiting for Friday. People are worried about the Fed raising rates.
JOSEF SCHACHTER

Bonds are not doing anything. The earnings coming out are okay.
JOSEF SCHACHTER

They do not like to run laps. Thankfully, we didn't have anyone miss tonight.
JOSEF LORENZ

Our defense has been the bread and butter of our team. We knew it was going to be a tough game and i...
JOSEF LORENZ

It really was a back-and-forth game.
JOSEF KNETS

I have high hopes for the season. It's a tough league and we start out with a tough schedule. I thin...
JOSEF KNETS

What he has achieved for our sport is tremendous. He is ever so popular not only in Germany but also...
JOSEF FENDT

The protection area will not need to be changed.
JOSEF DUBEN

Since they have been found on the spot of the previous find, the declared protective measures will r...
JOSEF DUBEN

The results were confirmed today. The swan was found on Saturday.
JOSEF DUBEN

The swan was found near the same location as previous cases, so protection measures will be almost u...
JOSEF DUBEN

The question is not whether but when the first bird flu case appears in our country.
JOSEF DUBEN

If I am found guilty, I will step down.
JOSEF ACKERMANN

We reached our financial target thanks to continued revenue growth in key businesses, strict control...
JOSEF ACKERMANN

After an outstanding first nine months, we now look forward with confidence to a successful conclusi...
JOSEF ACKERMANN

We are confident that, if business and market conditions remain stable, we will deliver on our publi...
JOSEF ACKERMANN

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