Goal Quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

— Austin O'Malley

I do not doubt but that genuine piety is the spring of peace of mind; it enables us to bear the sorrows of life,…

— Jean de la Bruyere

A hypocrite [is the one who] wants to impress others with an external facade of religious piety that he knows is devoid of internal…

— Sam Storms

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

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Piety is a discipline of the will through respect. It admits the right to exist of things larger than the ego, of things different…

— Richard M. Weaver

People who repress desires often turn, suddenly, into hypocrites.

— Rumi

Hypocrites are those who apply to others the standards that they refuse to accept for themselves.

— Noam Chomsky

Hypocrites act by virtue… They frame many counterfeits of her, with which they make an ostentatious parade, in all public assemblies, and processions; but…

— Charles Caleb Colton

In our interactions with people, a benevolent hypocrisy is frequently required--acting as though we do not see through the motivesof their actions.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I maintain, against the enemies of the stage, that patterns of piety, decently represented, may second the precepts.

— John Dryden

“Sometimes a hypocrite is nothing more than a man who is in the process of changing…all things exist in three reallms, the phiysical, where…

— Brandon Sanderson

“Sometimes a hypocrite is nothing more than a man who is in the process of changing…all things exist in three realms, the physical, where…

— Brandon Sanderson