Home / Topics / Duty Quotes

Duty Quotes

Browse 4172 quotes about Duty.

Duty Quotes

“A man's duty is to find out where the truth is, or if he cannot, at least to take the best possible human doctrine and the hardest to disprove, and to ride on this like a raft over the waters of life.”

Ifs Men Humans Water Duty Truth Is Doctrine Hardest Water Of Life

Book:Great dialogues of Plato

Source: Great dialogues of Plato

“I have already indicated to you the meaning of the word religion, as applied to Islam. The truth is that Islam is not a Church. It is a State conceived as a contractual organism long before Rousseau ever thought of such a thing, and animated by an ethical ideal which regards man not as an earth-rooted creature, defined by this or that portion of the earth, but as a spiritual being understood in terms of a social mechanism, and possessing rights and duties as a living factor in that mechanism.”

“No martyr ever went the way of duty, and felt the shadow of death upon it. The shadow of death is darkest in the valley, which men walk in easily, and is never felt at all on a steep place, like Calvary. Truth is everlasting, and so is every lover of it; and so he feels himself almost always.”

Men Way Feels Felt Walks Duty Lovers Truth Is Shadow Immortality Valleys Everlasting Martyr Steep Calvary Shadow Of Death

Book:Euthanasy, Or Happy Talk Towards the End of Life

Source: Euthanasy, Or Happy Talk Towards the End of Life

“To cultivate the intellect is therefore a religious duty; and when this truth is fairly recognized by men, the religion which teaches that the intellect should be distrusted and that it should be subservient to faith, will inevitably fall.”

Men Should Fall Religious Teach Atheism Duty Truth Is Intellect Positive Atheism Subservient

Book:The Martyrdom of Man

Source: The Martyrdom of Man

“Keep we to the broad truths before us; duty here; knowledge comes alone in the Hereafter.”

Duty Truth Is Broads Hereafter

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“As the safety and prosperity of nations ultimately and essentially depend on the protection and the blessing of Almighty God, and the national acknowledgment of this truth is not only an indispensable duty which the people owe to Him.”

People God Nations Religious Duty Depends Truth Is Blessing Bible Safety Prosperity Protection Almighty Indispensable Us History Almighty God Acknowledgment

Book:The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations

Source: The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations

“The truth is that we are a part of God. God could not have created anything except out of his own consciousness. We're all his dream, and our duty in life that God has assigned to us, that the universe has placed squarely in our laps, is to find out who we really are. "Gnothi seauton," as the Greeks used to say. "Know thyself." But to know thyself, if you trace it back, to the deeper and deeper levels, you discover that that self is not your body or your ego or your personality or your country or anything, that's just a sack of self-definitions that you carry around with you”

Ifs Knows Self Country Dream Body Used Universe Levels Consciousness Duty Personality Truth Is Ego Definitions Deeper Your Body Greek Lap Thyself Know Thyself

Author:Goswami Kriyananda

“Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself.”

Doe Truth Duty Truth Is Guilt Complexes Rewards

Author:Simone de Beauvoir

“Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty.”

Men War Truth Spirituality Peace Duty Truth Is Occupation Anti War Antiwar Publication

Author:Madame de Stael