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Anne Louise Germaine de Staël on Religion

1766–1817 France

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Religion is nothing, if it is not everything; if existence is not filled with it.

De l’Allemagne [Germany (1813)

A religious life is a struggle and not a hymn.

Corinne (1807)

Superstition is related to this life, religion to the next; superstition is allied to fatality, religion to virtue; it is by the vivacity of earthly desires that we become superstitious; it is, on the contrary, by the sacrifice of these desires that we become religious.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Anne Louise Germaine de Staël (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.