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Quotes About Pure

No milk. It is black coffee, pure but strong, that fortifies against the powers of darkness with which the world is filled.
~ Robert Aickman
Faultless to a fault.
~ Robert Browning
Moving parts in rubbing contact require lubrication to avoid excessive wear. Honorifics and formal politeness provide lubrication where people rub together. Often the very young, the untravelled, the naive, the unsophisticated deplore these formalities as empty, meaningless, or dishonest, and scorn to use them. No matter how pure their motives, they thereby throw sand into machinery that does not work too well at best.
~ Robert Heinlein
The easiest intellectual analogue of pure Quality that people in our environment can understand is that 'Quality is the response of an organism to its environment' [he
~ Robert M. Pirsig
Suddenly his face wasn't twitching. It was smooth as a baby's and peaceful, but peaceful in the way that intensity can sometimes momentarily make a face look peaceful and pure.
~ Robert Penn Warren
Suddenly his face wasn't twitching. It was smooth as a baby's & peaceful, but peaceful in the way that intensity can sometimes momentarily make a face look peaceful & pure.
~ Robert Penn Warren
This was what the poets couldn't put in their poetry, she thought dumbly, the rush of desire so fierce and pure it made one shake, all on the force of a word.
~ Lauren Willig
The pure culture is the foundation for all research on infectious disease.
~ Robert Koch
The science of mathematics presents the most brilliant example of how pure reason may successfully enlarge its domain without the aid of experience
~ Immanuel Kant
Mathematics is pure language - the language of science. It is unique among languages in its ability to provide precise expression for every thought or concept that can be formulated in its terms.
~ Alfred Adler
Nothing is accidental in the universe - this is one of my Laws of Physics - except the entire universe itself, which is Pure Accident, pure divinity.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
Error has made man so deep, sensitive, and inventive that he has put forth such blossoms as religions and arts. Pure knowledge could not have been capable of it.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Only Numbers. Pure math. You have to accustom yourself to thinking that way.
~ Anthony Doerr
Who's the artist? My favorite. She pauses. Unknown. Edydie sits cross-legged on the couch. There is something so pure about an artist creating something for the sheer joy of it, then sharing it with people and claiming no credit. To me that's the height of romance.
~ Adriana Trigiani
The moon slipped down into the frame of the window and reached an arm of pure light through the glass.
~ Aimee Bender
transcendental phenomenology as a science of pure essential possibilities of knowing
~ Dermot Moran
The sky is white.
~ Diana Abu-Jaber
To share is precious, pure and fair. Don't play with something you should cherish for life. Don't you wanna care, ain't it lonely out there?
~ Marvin Gaye
Thought is the fountain of action, life and manifestation; make the fountain pure, and all will be pure.
~ James Allen
The human soul, provided it is pure and strong enough, can contact the unseen in waking life as well as in dreams: all that is required is withdrawal of the soul from the tumult of sensory life.
~ Seyyed Hossein Nasr
Pure art exists only on the level of instant response to pure life
~ Keith Haring
God is not the mere dead conception to which we have thus given utterance, but he is in himself pure Life.
~ Johann Gottlieb Fichte
If things went according to the death notices, ... the earth seems to have been populated by a horde of wingless angels without one's having been aware of it. Pure love, which in reality is to be found so seldom, shines on all sides in death, and is the commonest thing of all.
~ Erich Maria Remarque
He who possesses a reasonable, sound theoretical equipment will perceive correctly, however neurotic or wicked he may be personally; he who lacks it or possesses an unsound one, will perceive incorrectly, however pure of neurotic tensions or compulsions he may be.
~ Ernest Gellner