Pure Quotes
2770 Pure quotes by 1744 unique authors
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Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty-a beauty cold and austere ... yet sublimely pure and capable of stern perfection such as…
— Bertrand Russell
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We can live as we were meant to live - simply, joyously, of and on the earth. We can live with all our effort and…
— Scott Jurek
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Sometimes falling in love may look like pure madness to those not experiencing it but that's only because they're not involved. Just because other people…
— Willa Cather
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A chess problem is an exercise in pure mathematics.
— G. H. Hardy
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O Death, made proud with pure and princely beauty!
— William Shakespeare
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He used this great, sad, motionless face to suggest various related things: a one-track mind near the track's end of pure insanity; mulish imperturbability under…
— James Agee
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A successful work of art is not one which resolves contradictions in a spurious harmony, but one which expresses the idea of harmony negatively by…
— Theodor Adorno
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Take courage and work on. Patience and steady work - this is the only way. Go on; remember - patience and purity and courage and…
— Swami Vivekananda
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Technology is us. There is no separation. It's a pure expression of human creative will. It doesn't exist anywhere else in the universe. I'm rather…
— David Cronenberg
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Positive self-expectancy is the first, most outwardly identifiable quality of a top-achieving, winning human being. Positive self-expectancy is pure and simple optimism: real enthusiasm for…
— Denis Waitley
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A true noun, an isolated thing, does not exit in nature. Things are only the terminal points, or rather the meeting points of actions, cross…
— Unknown Author
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Your truth should be so pure that if lifts a person's soul to the heights.
— Harbhajan Singh Yogi
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High art consists neither in altering, nor in improving nature; but in seeking throughout nature for 'whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are pure;' in…
— John Ruskin
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We have entered a new phase of culture - we may call it the Age of the Cinema - in which the most amazing perfection…
— Christopher Dawson
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Pure morality is only an instinctive adjustment which the soul makes.
— D. H. Lawrence
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Now I will tell you the answer to my question. It is this. The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not…
— George Orwell
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I'd work eighteen-hour stretches and fall asleep in my clothes. Then I'd wake up in the middle of the night, brew a pot of tea,…
— Trevor Baylis
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The feeling of it to my lungs was not sensibly different from that of common air; but I fancied that my breast felt peculiarly light…
— Joseph Priestley
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To remain pure, a novel has to cast a moral puzzle. Anything else is mere negotiation.
— Anita Brookner
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It is not necessary to argue to those for whom I write that the two great needs of mankind, that all men may be lifted…
— Josiah Strong
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Pure air, sunlight, abstemiousness, rest, exercise, proper diet, the use of water, trust in Divine power-these are the true remedies.
— Ellen G. White
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The stomach, liver, lungs and brain are suffering for want of deep, full inspirations of air which would electrify the blood and impart to it…
— Ellen G. White
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Pure air, good water, sunshine, the beautiful surroundings of nature...these are God's means for restoring the sick to health.
— Ellen G. White
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Painting is an extension of man's means of communication. As such, it's pure, difficult, and wonderful.
— Sidney Nolan
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Where to begin? Do we measure the relaxing of the feet? The moment when the eye glimpses the hawk, when instinct functions? For in this…
— Peter Matthiessen
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