Purely Quotes

573 Purely quotes by 482 unique authors

If you allow for a purely capitalistic society, without any type of regulation at all, you will get one monopoly that will eat all of… — Serj Tankian
Linux has definitely made a lot of sense even in a purely materialistic sense. — Linus Torvalds
Our nuclear weapons are meant purely as a deterrent against nuclear adventure by an adversary. — Atal Bihari Vajpayee
A self-fulfilling prophecy is an assumption or prediction that, purely as a result of having been made, cause the expected or predicted event to occur… — Paul Watzlawick
Dreaming is a phenomenon of purely individual consciousness, and consequently impossible to thoroughly deconstruct by a community of researchers. But dreaming matters. — Andrew Weil
All persons, living and dead, are purely coincidental. — Kurt Vonnegut
It is my view that the vegetarian manner of living, by its purely physical effect on the human temperament, would most beneficially influence the lot… — Albert Einstein
Growth purely for its own sake is the philosophy of cancer. — Jasper Fforde
Whether you like it or not, you are committed to the human endeavor. I cannot ally myself with such a purely negative goal as avoidance… — William S. Burroughs
People say that what we’re all seeking is a meaning for life. I don’t think that’s what we’re really seeking. I think that what we’re… — Joseph Campbell
[Horror fiction] shows us that the control we believe we have is purely illusory, and that every moment we teeter on chaos and oblivion. — Clive Barker
See, if you look at the drug war from a purely economic point of view, the role of the government is to protect the drug… — Milton Friedman
If Husain (as) had fought to quench his worldly desires…then I do not understand why his sister, wife, and children accompanied him. It stands to… — Charles Dickens
You’re pretty sharp, Clive. Do you believe in God?” Clive smiled. “I don’t know, should I?” Actually, approaching the matter from a purely logical perspective,… — Ted Dekker
The strongest of all arguments against the interference of the public with purely personal conduct, is that when it does interfere, the odds are that… — John Stuart Mill
Whether you take the doughnut hole as a blank space or as an entity unto itself is a purely metaphysical question and does not affect… — Haruki Murakami
He returns years later, has no demands. He wants only one, most precious thing: To see, purely and simply, without name, Without expectations, fears, or… — Czeslaw Milosz
There is nothing divine about morality, it is a purely human affair. — Albert Einstein
For the sadness in legitimate humour consists in the fact that honestly and without deceit it reflects in a purely human way upon what it… — Soren Kierkegaard
With no fact as a referent, what is normative is purely a matter of preference. — Ravi Zacharias
Not many people can lay claim to having broken Time, and we did it purely by accident. — James A. Owen
As a philosopher, if I were speaking to a purely philosophic audience I should say that I ought to describe myself as an Agnostic, because… — Bertrand Russell
No doubt very few people understand the purely subjective nature of the phenomenon that we call love, or how it creates, so to speak, a… — Marcel Proust
Wine is one of the most civilized things in the world and one of the most natural things of the world that has been brought… — Ernest Hemingway
Every man is the builder of a temple, called his body, to the god he worships, after a style purely his own, nor can he… — Henry David Thoreau

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