Purity Quotes

634 quotes by 417 authors

What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter - a soothing, calming influence… — Henri Matisse
Nothing like being visible, publishing one's work, and speaking openly about one's life, to disabuse the world of the illusion of one's perfection and purity. — Joyce Maynard
Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and… — Thomas Merton
Before children, even the most cynical people throw down their usual masks and become capable of feeling the purity and love which all human beings… — Sun Myung Moon
I am too pure for you or anyone. — Sylvia Plath
Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings. — Salman Rushdie
All the classical genres are now ridiculous in their rigorous purity. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
The name of Jesus, like a secret charm, awakened similar emotions in the hearts of all the converts, and called immediately into action every feeling… — John Strachan
Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind. — Leonardo da Vinci
Much of a poet's experience takes place in imagination only; the life he tells is oftenest the life that he strongly desires to live, and… — George Edward Woodberry
It is hard to see Judge Roberts as a judicial activist who would place ideological purity or a particular agenda above or ahead the need… — Ron Wyden
I am a part of the old school where I feel that purity of the language should be retained. But English is a constantly evolving… — Ashwin Sanghi
I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet. — Mahatma Gandhi
Purity in body and heart May please some--as for me, I make no boast. For, as you know, no master of a household Has all… — Geoffrey Chaucer
...I want first of all - in fact, as an end to these other desires - to be at peace with myself. I want a… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
The theologian may indulge the pleasing task of describing Religion as she descended from Heaven, arrayed in her native purity. A more melancholy duty is… — Edward Gibbon
we can learn to trust our maternal selves and to have faith in the innate goodness and purity of our children - even when we… — Katrina Kenison
I hate purity, I hate goodness! I don't want virtue to exist anywhere. I want everyone to be corrupt to the bones. — George Orwell
We all dream dreams of unity, of purity; we all dream that there's an authoritative voice out there that will explain things, including ourselves. If… — Junot Diaz
There is nothing mind can do that cannot be better done in the mind's immobility and thought-free stillness. When mind is still, then truth gets… — Sri Aurobindo

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