Pure Quotes - page 3

Grown men can learn from very little children for the hearts of little children are pure. Therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss. (Black Elk)
God was conceived of a most pure Virgin ... it was fitting that the virgin should be radiant with a purity so great that a greater purity cannot be conceived. View quote
Anselm of Canterbury
Although a man may wear fine clothing, if he lives peacefully; and is good, self-possessed, has faith and is pure; and if he does not hurt any living being, he is a holy man. View quote
Denis Diderot
He spake of love, such love as spirits feel In worlds whose course is equable and pure No fears to beat away, no strife to heal, The past unsighed for, and the future sure. View quote
William Wordsworth
Blessings be with them, and eternal praise, Who gave us nobler loves, and nobler cares The Poets, who on earth have made us heirs Of truth and pure delight by heavenly lays. View quote
William Wordsworth
Dreams, books, are each a world and books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure and good. Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow. View quote
William Wordsworth
We bow our heads before Thee, and we laud And magnify thy name Almighty God But man is thy most awful instrument In working out a pure intent. View quote
William Wordsworth
Sun-worship and pure forms of nature-worship were, in their day, noble religions, highly allegorical but full of profound truth and knowledge. View quote
Annie Besant
There is no such thing as immaterial matter. All spirit is matter, but is more fine or pure, and can only be discerned by purer eyes. We cannot see it, but when our bodies are purified, we shall see that it is all matter. View quote
Joseph Smith
There is a land of pure delight, Where saints immortal reign Infinite day excludes the night, And pleasures banish pain. View quote
Isaac Watts
To begin with, we put the proposition: pure phenomenology is the science of pure consciousness. (Edmund Husserl)
Often it is only after immense intellectual effort, which may have continued over centuries, that humanity at last succeeds in achieving knowledge of a concept in its pure form, by stripping off the irrelevant accretions which veil it from the eye of the mind. View quote
Gottlob Frege
This is the pure form of servitude: to exist as an instrument. View quote
Herbert Marcuse
I spend my happiest hours in reading Vedantic books. They are to me like the light of the morning, like the pure air of the mountains - so simple, so true, if once understood. View quote
Max Müller
On his deathbed Death, the only immortal who treats us all alike, whose pity and whose peace and whose refuse are for all -- the soiled and the pure, the rich and the poor, the loved and the unloved. View quote
Mark Twain
All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you. View quote
Rainer Maria Rilke
Physical pleasure is a sensual experience no different from pure seeing or the pure sensation with which a fine fruit fills the tongue it is a great unending experience, which is given us, a knowing of the world, the fullness and the glory of all knowing. And not our acceptance of it is bad the bad thing is that most people misuse and squander this experience and apply it as a stimulant at the tired spots of their lives and as distraction instead of a rallying toward exalted moments. View quote
Rainer Maria Rilke
Being, belief and reason are pure relations, which cannot be dealt with absolutely, and are not things but pure scholastic concepts, signs for understanding, not for worshipping, aids to awaken our attention, not to fetter it. View quote
Johann Georg Hamann
The pure work implies the disappearance of the poet as speaker, who hands over to the words. View quote
Stéphane Mallarmé
Chivalry!---why, maiden, she is the nurse of pure and high affection---the stay of the oppressed, the redresser of grievances, the curb of the power of the tyrant ---Nobility were but an empty name without her, and liberty finds the best protection in her lance and her sword. View quote
Walter Scott
Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas. (Albert Einstein)
True generosity is an offering; given freely and out of pure love. No strings attached. No expectations. Time and love are the most valuable possession you can share. View quote
Suze Orman
When you're happy you find pure joy in your life. There are no regrets in this state of happiness - and that's a goal worth striving for in all areas of your life. View quote
Suze Orman
Since the invention of the kiss, there have only been five kisses that were rated the most passionate, the most pure. This one left them all behind. View quote
William Goldman
Memory is never pure. And recollection is always coloured by the life lived since. View quote
Josephine Hart