Quotes About Josef Pieper

The liberal arts, then, include all forms of human activity which are an end in themselves; the servile arts are those which have an end beyond themselves, and more precisely an end which consists in a utilitarian result attainable in practice, a practicable result.

The Catholic philosopher Josef Pieper summed it up when he said that "the abuse of political power is fundamentally connected with the sophistic abuse of the word.