“Godliness is more easily feigned in words than in actions”
Source: The Religious Affections
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Jonathan Edwards 79
Christian preacher, philosopher, and theologian 1703–1758Related quotes
Ibid., p. 110
The Book of Disquiet
Original: A superioridade do sonhador consiste em que sonhar é muito mais prático que viver, e em que o sonhador extrai da vida um prazer muito mais vasto e muito mais variado do que o homem de acção. Em melhores e mais directas palavras, o sonhador é que é o homem de acção.
“Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.”
Motto of the work written by Hesse, and attributed to an "Albertus Secundus"
The Glass Bead Game (1943)
Context: For although in a certain sense and for light-minded persons non-existent things can be more easily and irresponsibly represented in words than existing things, for the serious and conscientious historian it is just the reverse. Nothing is harder, yet nothing is more necessary, than to speak of certain things whose existence is neither demonstrable nor probable. The very fact that serious and conscientious men treat them as existing things brings them a step closer to existence and to the possibility of being born.
“Life is words in action, literature is action in words.”
Oluşmak (To Become) Aphorisms (Pan Publishing House, Istanbul, 2011)
“There is nothing more horrifying than stupidity in action.”