Purely Quotes
573 Purely quotes by 482 unique authors
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The man who works recognizes his own product in the world that has actually been transformed by his work. He recognizes himself in it, he…
— Alexandre Kojeve
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Nor can they understand why a totally useless substance like gold should now, all over the world, be considered far more important than human beings,…
— Thomas More
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I despise the cowardly clinging to life, purely for the sake of life, that seems so deeply ingrained in the American temperament.
— Christopher Lasch
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The Japanese had, in fact, already sued for peace. The atomic bomb played no decisive part, from a purely military point of view, in the…
— Chester W. Nimitz
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The student of mathematics must get rid of all arbitrary thinking and follow purely the demands of thought. In thinking in this way, the laws…
— Rudolf Steiner
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There is among us a far closer relationship than the purely social one of a fraternal organization because we are bound together not only by…
— Sandy Koufax
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The systematic, wanton, and long continued agitation of the slavery question, with the actual and threatened aggressions of the Northern States and a portion of…
— Isham G. Harris
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Wherever we see the Word of God purely preached and heard, there a church of God exists, even if it swarms with many faults.
— John Calvin
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The entire universe - for one thing - only exists in your perceptions. That's all you're gonna see of it. To all practical intents and…
— Alan Moore
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I think if I have one message, one thing before I die that most of the world would know, it would be that the event…
— Virginia Satir
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The purely emotional form of Pietism is, as Ritschl has pointed out, a religious dilettantism for the leisure class.
— Max Weber
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In the midst of a culture that is rationally organized for a vocational workaday life, there is hardly any room for the cultivation of acosmic…
— Max Weber
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The idea of buddha mind is not purely a concept or a theoretical, metaphysical idea. It is something extremely real that we can experience ourselves.…
— Chogyam Trungpa
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It is essential that we raise the image of sex, which is currently seen as a purely biological affair and often portrayed in its worst…
— Stanislav Grof
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A reasonable estimate of economic organisation must allow for the fact that, unless industry is to be paralysed by recurrent revolts on the part of…
— R. H. Tawney
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The more experience and insight I obtain into human nature, the more convinced do I become that the greater portion of a man is purely…
— Henry Morton Stanley
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In the social equation, the value of a single life is nil; in the cosmic equation, it is infinite... Not only communism, but any political…
— Arthur Koestler
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You can't build a society purely on interests, you need a sense of belonging
— Valery Giscard d'Estaing
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Just how we fit into the plans of the Great Architect and how much He has assigned us to do, we do not know, but…
— Robert Andrews Millikan
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Otherwise, all I remember of the denizens of the Nocturama is that several of them had strikingly large eyes, and the fixed inquiring gaze found…
— W G Sebald
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When one becomes a liberal, he or she pretends to advocate tolerance, equality and peace, but hilariously, they’re doing so for purely selfish reasons. It’s…
— Greg Gutfeld
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Love is purely a creation of the human imagination... the most important example of how the imagination continually outruns the creature it inhabits.
— Katherine Anne Porter
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As a guitar player, you can gravitate to the blues because you can play it easily. It's not a style that's difficult to pick up.…
— Boz Scaggs
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Restricted immigration is not an offensive but purely a defensive action. It is not adopted in criticism of others in the slightest degree, but solely…
— Calvin Coolidge
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I always had, deep down, a slight aversion toward the purely cerebral in music.
— Esa-Pekka Salonen
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