Frömmigkeit / Piety Zitate auf Englisch

Zitat des Tages über Frömmigkeit / Piety:

Hebrew in America has a bemusing past. The Puritans, out of scriptural piety, once dreamed of establishing Hebrew as the national language. Cynthia Ozick

Wonder, connected with a principle of rational curiosity, is the source of all knowledge and discover, and it is a principle even of piety; but wonder which ends in wonder, and is satisfied with wonder, is the quality of an idiot.

Samuel Horsley

Ancestor worship, or filial piety so characteristic of Asian cultures, for example, does not really resonate with Americans who favor children, not grandparents.

Alan Dundes

The hypocrisy and false piety of the deniers aside, the relationships of gays have no effect on heteros. Especially all the heteros who've done such a marvelous job of debasing marriage on their own all these many years.

John Ridley

I have seen too many of my male friends - no matter whether they're on the football field or inside a church - bash gays and then revel in their machismo or piety.

Cory Booker

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.'

Friedrich Nietzsche

Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.

John Denham

My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests.

George Santayana

This, and this alone, is Christianity, a universal holiness in every part of life, a heavenly wisdom in all our actions, not conforming to the spirit and temper of the world but turning all worldly enjoyments into means of piety and devotion to God.

William Law

In a society which is structured the wrong way, piety has no effect.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

Oaths are the fossils of piety.

George Santayana

Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice.

Abu Bakr

Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety.

Edmund Burke

If people want to compete for leadership of a religious group, they can compete in piety. A chilling thought. Or funny.

Mary Douglas

Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.

Aristotle

Faith is never identical with piety.

Karl Barth

There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.

Moliere

In the beds which the piety of the public has prepared on every side, stricken men await the verdict of fate.

Georges Duhamel

For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.

Aristotle

Paganism is infectious, more infectious than diphtheria or piety.

E. M. Forster

Piety is not a goal but a means to attain through the purest peace of mind the highest culture.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line of it.

Omar Khayyam

You might think that religion was the one area in which professional jealousy would take a back seat. But no: ecclesiastical memoirs are as viperish as any, though their envy tends to cloak itself in piety.

Craig Brown

Keeping our eyes on journey's end is what we need - the place where we see at last the world that is greater than the world, the new creation that cannot be contained in present thought or social order or piety.

Rowan Williams

Hebrew in America has a bemusing past. The Puritans, out of scriptural piety, once dreamed of establishing Hebrew as the national language.

Cynthia Ozick