On Silence
Following on my page on Rogues, I have decided to create another page compiling my various posts on silence. Silence comes into a lot of my posts, sometimes obliquely, sometimes less…
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Learning How To See Again, Josef Pieper
LEARNING HOW TO SEE AGAIN By Josef Pieper (translated by Lothar Krauk) from Only The Lover Sings: Art and Contemplation Man’s ability to see is in decline. Those who…
“A closed mind and know-it-allness are fundamentally forms of resistance to the truth of real things” – Josef Pieper on prudence
From “The Four Cardinal Virtues“: No man is altogether self-sufficient in matters of prudence’; without docilitas there is no perfect prudence. Docilitas, however, is of course not the ‘docility’ and…
Josef Pieper on silence and leisure
I came across this on the ever wonderful First Known When Lost blog: “Leisure is a form of silence, of that silence which is the prerequisite of the apprehension of…
Séamus Sweeney 