Purely Quotes

573 Purely quotes by 482 unique authors

An important fact to remember is that all natural diets, including purely vegetarian diets without a hint of dairy products, contain amounts of calcium that… — John A. McDougall
The Blues scene now is international. In the '50s it was purely something that you would hear in black clubs, played by black musicians, especially… — Mick Taylor
Most of the vices and mortal sins condemned today correspond to inclinations that were purely adaptive or at least harmless in primitive man — Konrad Lorenz
A purely materialistic art would be like a tree which is expected to bear fruit without flowering and to sacrifice grace and beauty for mere… — Haile Selassie
The State, both in its genesis and by its primary intention, is purely anti-social. It is not based on the idea of natural rights, but… — Albert J. Nock
Another strange notion pervading whole peoples is that the State has money of its own; and nowhere is this absurdity more firmly fixed than in… — Albert J. Nock
I believe that street photography is central to the issue of photography—that it is purely photographic, whereas the other genres, such as landscape and portrait… — Joel Meyerowitz
One can, then, conceive the production, by purely mineral means, of all natural hydrocarbons. The intervention of heat, of water, and of alkaline metals -… — Marcellin Berthelot
Formality Thus the absence of all mention of particular things or properties in logic or pure mathematics is a necessary result of the fact that… — Bertrand Russell
The clitoris is pure in purpose. It is the only organ in the body designed purely for pleasure. — Eve Ensler
And so on, until you arrive at the other side, among the purely abstract self-harming: the grinding over your failures, the refusal to remember anything… — Alexander Masters
When I started to pick up the bass, it was purely by random chance. — Eberhard Weber
The individualism of current economic theory is manifest in the purely self-interested behaviour it generally assumes. It has no real place for fairness, malevolence, and… — Herman E. Daly
We live well enough to have the luxury to get ourselves sick with purely social, psychological stress. — Robert M. Sapolsky
To the extent that we hyper-separate ourselves from nature and reduce it conceptually in order to justify domination, we not only lose the ability to… — Val Plumwood
When I read, I'm purely a reader — Anne Tyler
The purely righteous do not complain of the dark, but increase the light; they do not complain of evil, but increase justice; they do not… — Abraham Isaac Kook
Today many people are switching to free software for purely practical reasons. That is good, as far as it goes, but that isn't all we… — Richard Stallman
The individual has become a mere cog in an enormous organization of things and powers which tear from his hands all progress, spirituality, and value… — Georg Simmel
To wage a war for a purely moral reason is as absurd as to ravish a woman for a purely moral reason — H. L. Mencken
The basics teachings of Buddha are about understanding what we are, who we are, why we are. When we begin to realize what we are,… — Chogyam Trungpa
There is nothing divine about morality; it is a purely human affair. If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward,… — Albert Einstein
Purely sensual love is never true or lasting, for which reason first love is, as a rule, but a passing infatuation, a fleeting passion. -… — Richard von Krafft-Ebing
Nothing about his life is more strange to [man] or more unaccountable in purely mundane terms than the stirrings he finds in himself, usually fitful… — Lewis Mumford
Together, the property rights and public choice schools show only that, if you start by assuming a purely individualistic model of human behavior and treat… — Paul Starr

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