“What I call innocence is the spirit's unself-conscious state at any moment of pure devotion to any object. It is at once… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
“From the beginning philosophy sought for The order behind the disorder Thales sipped cheap wine And in this did divine: “Why it’s… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
Error has made man so deep, sensitive, and inventive that he has put forth such blossoms as religions and arts. Pure knowledge… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The purpose of all our explanations is not to have you understand anything, but for you to snap from the understanding of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Suppose that men kill thee, cut thee in pieces, curse thee, what can these things do to prevent thy mind from remaining… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
If we are like Christ, we shall seek, not to absorb, but to reflect the light which falls upon others, and thus… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The legislator should keep two things constantly before his eyes: 1. The pure theory developed to its minutest details; 2. The particular… — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
We forget about the space between the stars, the pure and perfect space that's also the eye of God. To penetrate the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
My heart hath often been deeply afflicted under a feeling that the standard of pure righteousness is not lifted up to the… — John Woolman Copy Share Image
Music is a means capable of expressing dark dramatism and pure rapture, suffering and ecstasy, fiery and cold fury, melancholy and wild… — Dmitri Shostakovich Copy Share Image
People break down into two groups when the experience something lucky. Group number one sees it as more than luck, more than… — M. Night Shyamalan Copy Share Image
Who will govern the governors? There is only one force in the nation that can be depended upon to keep the government… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Work done illegally outdoors or without permission feels like pure freedom to me. I understand how it can upset many in our… — Barry McGee Copy Share Image
If the impure and the unjust, the drunkard and the licentious, are loathsome to us, what must be the infinite loathing of… — Lyman Abbott Copy Share Image
Adam and Eve entered the world naked and unashamed - naked and pure-minded. And no descendant of theirs has ever entered it… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Mountains are cathedrals: grand and pure, the houses of my religion. I go to them as humans go to worship...From their lofty… — Anatoli Boukreev Copy Share Image
I think a theater show is a pure version of me doing my material. The theater crowd is a bit more polite,… — Anthony Jeselnik Copy Share Image
We didn’t want to disrupt the creative process. We have the chance to make the films we want because the films are… — Julie Delpy Copy Share Image
I think it's a big chance to take to make a movie that's about as something as pure and honest and something… — John Krasinski Copy Share Image
Anyone involved with songwriting will testify to the fact that each song, no matter how pure or from the heart, has its… — C. Sigman Copy Share Image
Life is forever. Death is only a temporary abridgment. It is just a state of transition where you will move from one… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When you go beyond awareness, there is a state of nonduality, in which there is no cognition, only pure being. In the… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
If you truly love someone, you're going to be pure because true love comes from God, and God tells us to remain… — Jon Foreman Copy Share Image
Everything will come right if you are pure and sincere. We want hundreds like you bursting upon society and bringing new life… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
But man is a Noble Animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing Nativities and Deaths with equal lustre, nor… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
I hadn't planned to be a model. It just happened by pure chance. I went to a beauty school with my sister,… — Irina Shayk Copy Share Image
The very purpose for being in this body, for every one of us, is to live and rejoice in that virgin area,… — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
Only no-mind can be without any duality, because it is empty. The no-mind is choicelessness. The no-mind is pure awareness. It is… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
A Truth is the subjective development of that which is at once both new and universal. New: that which is unforeseen by… — Alain Badiou Copy Share Image
Writers are the moral purifiers of the culture. We may not be pure ourselves but we must tell the truth, which is… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
Ignorance is an enemy, even to its owner. Knowledge is a friend, even to its hater. Ignorance hates knowledge because it is… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
I know a girl who cries when she practices violin because each note sounds so pure it just cuts into her, and… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
The normal self is the mind. The mind is with limitations. But pure Consciousness is beyond limitations, and is reached by investigation… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
A farmer, a hunter, a soldier, a reporter, even a philosopher, may be daunted; but nothing can deter a poet, for he… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“The prevarication and white lies which a mind that keeps itself ambitiously pure is as uneasy under as a great artist under… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The cooking profession, while it's a noble craft and a noble calling, 'cause you're doing something useful - you're feeding people, you're… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
On the roads, I can see truth revealed whole without thought or reason. There I experience the sudden understanding that comes unasked,… — George A. Sheehan Copy Share Image
Those who live simply are often pure, while those who live luxuriously may be slavish and servile. It seems that the will… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
But I think Steve's main contribution besides just the pure leadership is his passion for excellence. He's a perfectionist. Good enough isn't… — Andy Hertzfeld Copy Share Image
Blessed are the pure in heart; how will people believe that, unless we ourselves are worshipping the living God until our own… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
