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Piety Quotes
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I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his divine service. (Quote by - Friedrich Nietzsche)
PietyEvery thought which genius and piety throw into the world alters the world. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety. (Quote by - Edmund Burke)
For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. (Quote by - Aristotle)
Our religion does not discriminate according to color, sex or anything else. What counts is piety and faith. (Quote by - King Hussein I)
Faith is never identical with piety. (Quote by - Karl Barth)
Faith is nothing but obedience and piety. (Quote by - Baruch Spinoza)
You smile with pomp and rigor, you talk of benevolence and virtue; I act with benevolence and virtue and get murdered time after time. (Quote by - William Blake)
Let sleep itself be an exercise in piety, for such as our life and conduct have been, so also of necessity will be our dreams. (Quote by - Saint Basil)
In a society which is structured the wrong way, piety has no effect. (Quote by - Friedrich Durrenmatt)
In the beds which the piety of the public has prepared on every side, stricken men await the verdict of fate. (Quote by - Georges Duhamel)
Morals are an acquirement - like music, like a foreign language, like piety, poker, paralysis - no man is born with them. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line of it. (Quote by - Omar Khayyam)
Piety is not a goal but a means to attain through the purest peace of mind the highest culture. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe)