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Justice is a habit (habitus), whereby a man renders to each one his due with constant and perpetual will.
The Four Cardinal Virtues: Prudence, Justice, Fortitude, Temperance (1965)
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)
Wonder is defined by Thomas [Aquinas] in the Summa Theologiae [I-II, Q. 32, a. 8], as the desiderium sciendi, the desire for knowledge, active longing to know.
Leisure, the Basis of Culture (1948)
In our bourgeois Western world total labor has vanquished leisure. Unless we regain the art of silence and insight, the ability for non-activity, unless we substitute true leisure for our hectic amusements, we will destroy our culture—and ourselves.
Leisure: The Basis of Culture (1948)
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)
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.
Leisure, the Basis of Culture (1948)
"Being precedes Truth, and … Truth precedes the Good."
The Four Cardinal Virtues: Prudence, Justice, Fortitude, Temperance (1965)
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 ratios 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).
Leisure, the Basis of Culture (1948)
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