piety quotes

At the age when other children, I imagine, experience their first ‚feeling‘ for a person, or for art, or for religion, I was affectionate, good, and even pious: by that I mean that under the influence of my mother, I was devoted to the Child Jesus.

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.‘

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

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

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

Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.

True patriotism is better than the wrong kind of piety.