Martin Heidegger
Philosopher
"Questioning is the piety of thought."
Piety quotes
Piety
25 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
E. M. Forster
Novelist, Essayist
"Pathos, piety, courage, they exist, but are identical, and so is filth. Everything exists, nothing has value."
Baruch Spinoza
Philosopher, Rationalist
"Faith is nothing but obedience and piety."
E. M. Forster
Novelist, Essayist
"Paganism is infectious, more infectious than diphtheria or piety."
Elbert Hubbard
Writer, Publisher
"Piety is the tinfoil of pretense."
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"Religion itself becomes offensively monotonous. On every point of vantage are pagodas -- stupid stalagmites of stagnant piety."
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"Piety and holiness of life will propitiate the gods. [Lat., Deos placatos pietas efficiet et sanctitas.]"
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"Piety, like nobility, has its aristocracy."
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"Love of God is not always the same as love of good."
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