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“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.”

Ends Quality Wonder Principles Source Curiosity Connected Satisfied Rational Idiot Piety

Book:Sermons

Source: Sermons

“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.”

World Needs Ends Eye Lasts Order Social Greater Journey Creation Piety Social Order

Author:Rowan Williams

“If you cultivate piety as an end and not a means, you will become a hypocrite.”

Ifs Mean Ends Hypocrite Piety

Author:Austin O'Malley

“Piety is not an end, but a means: a means of attaining the highest culture by the purest tranquility of soul. Hence it may be observed that those who set up piety as an end and object are mostly hypocrites.”

May Mean Soul Ends Culture Objects Highest Tranquility Hypocrite Piety

Book:Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)

“To the zealot overcome by his piety and to the journeyman of ideas concerned only with his marketable mental skills, the beginning and end of ideas lies in their efficacy with respect to some goal external to intellectual processes.”

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Book:Anti-Intellectualism in American Life

Source: Anti-Intellectualism in American Life