Pure Quotes
2770 Pure quotes by 1744 unique authors
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Error has made man so deep, sensitive, and inventive that he has put forth such blossoms as religions and arts. Pure knowledge could not have…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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If the term education may be understood in so large a sense as to include all that belongs to the improvement of the mind, either…
— Michael Faraday
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One hardly knows where, in the history of science, to look for an important movement that had its effective start in so pure and simple…
— Simon Newcomb
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When we say 'science' we can either mean any manipulation of the inventive and organizing power of the human intellect: or we can mean such…
— Wyndham Lewis
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... we ought to have saints' days to commemorate the great discoveries which have been made for all mankind, and perhaps for all time-or for…
— Winston Churchill
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No one can take from us the joy of the first becoming aware of something, the so-called discovery. But if we also demand the honor,…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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In so far as such developments utilise the natural energy running to waste, as in water power, they may be accounted as pure gain. But…
— Frederick Soddy
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Remote from human passions, remote even from the pitiful facts of nature, the generations have gradually created an ordered cosmos [mathematics], where pure thought can…
— Bertrand Russell
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The science of mathematics presents the most brilliant example of how pure reason may successfully enlarge its domain without the aid of experience
— Immanuel Kant
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[P]ure mathematics is on the whole distinctly more useful than applied. For what is useful above all is technique, and mathematical technique is taught mainly…
— G. H. Hardy
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Pure truth, like pure gold, has been found unfit for circulation because men have discovered that it is far more convenient to adulterate the truth…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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Free labor has the inspiration of hope; pure slavery has no hope.
— Abraham Lincoln
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In meditation take care not to impose anything on the mind, or to tax it. When you meditate there should be no effort to control,…
— Sogyal Rinpoche
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To limit yourself to a label of "alcoholic" is masochistic and false if you have awakened a deeper spiritual identity within and have come to…
— Deepak Chopra
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Meditation is to attain to a no-mindness, to a state of no-thought. In that opening of no-thought, in that kind of space, suddenly you become…
— Rajneesh
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It is better not to call anything to anybody - just remain centered in yourself. Look at the world and drop judgments, and you will…
— Rajneesh
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Meditation means you don't have anything, any object to think about. You are just in a state of absolute aloneness. You don't have anything on…
— Rajneesh
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Objects must cease, mind must become just a pure mirror - a mirroring, not mirroring anything - just a mirror without any object in it,…
— Rajneesh
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We have songs and we have smiles; that is the beauty of 3HO. We have many, many songs and we have very, very, very many…
— Harbhajan Singh Yogi
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Look what we are trying. You call it dharma, but it is not. What we are trying is to come together; come together to an…
— Harbhajan Singh Yogi
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I've always been more interested in the content of our newspapers, political positions day to day, the thrill of communicating with people through words that…
— Rupert Murdoch
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This race is never grateful: from the first, One fills their cup at supper with pure wine, Which back they give at cross-time on a…
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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That man has missed something who has never left a brothel at sunrise feeling like throwing himself into the river out of pure disgust.
— Gustave Flaubert
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Our Soul is a spark of the Divine. It is pure and perfect. Evil deeds merely obstruct our vision of the true nature of our…
— Swami Vivekananda
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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 just the empty…
— Rajneesh
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