Pure Quotes - Page 15

• Such a man as instinctively feeds on pure ambrosia and leaves alone the indigestible in things.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Ambrosia

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• The real us is pure love, pure light

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Real, Light, Four Agreements

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• The relations of the soul to the divine spirit are so pure, that it is profane to seek to interpose helps.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Soul, Self Reliance, Spirit

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays”, p.28, Coyote Canyon Press

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• The presentations and conceptions of the average man of the world are formed and dominated, not by the full and pure desire for knowledge as an end in itself, but by the struggle to adapt himself favourably to the conditions of life.

  Ernst Mach

  Struggle, Men, Average

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• A large number of well-trained scientists outside of evolutionary biology and paleontology have unfortunately gotten the idea that the fossil record is far more Darwinian than it is. This probably comes from the oversimplification inevitable in secondary sources: low-level textbooks semipopular articles, and so on. Also, there is probably some wishful thinking involved. In the years after Darwin, his advocates hoped to find predictable progressions. In general. these have not been found-yet the optimism has died hard and some pure fantasy has crept into textbooks.

  David M. Raup

  Thinking, Years, Ideas

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• The synergetic integral of the totality of all principles is God, whose sum-total behavior in pure principle is beyond our comprehension and is utterly mysterious to us, because as humans--in pure principle--we do not and never will know all the principles

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Principles, Mysterious, Behavior

  R. Buckminster Fuller (1982). “Critical Path”, p.379, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

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• It’s, it’s like I’m in the fourth dimension and somebody is asking me to describe it verbally and that’s what the fourth dimension is all about, is no words, no symbols, no images, all pure, real energy and vibrations. And, and if I thought about how cruel of a world this is, I would probably just commit suicide after a while, if that was what I spent my energy thinking about. I would definitely not have any strength left to create music.

  John Frusciante

  Suicide, Real, Thinking

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• Donating a kidney to a woman I had never met was the greatest experience of my life. To give for the pure sake of giving brings the deepest joy imaginable. I am profoundly grateful for the opportunity that changed my life in every way

  Lori Palatnik

  Grateful, Opportunity, Giving

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• To dream the impossible dream, to fight the unbeatable foe, to bear with unbearable sorrow, to run where the brave dare not go, to right the unrightable wrong, to love pure and chaste from afar, to try when your arms are too weary, to reach the unreachable star. This is my quest, to follow that star, no matter how hopeless, no matter how far. To fight for the right, without question or pause, to be willing to march into hell for a heavenly cause. And I know if I’ll only be true to this glorious quest that my heart will be peaceful and calm when I’m laid to my rest.

  Joe Darion

  Running, Dream, Stars

  "The Impossible Dream (The Quest)" (song) (1965)

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• Memory is never pure. And recollection is always coloured by the life lived since

  Josephine Hart

  Memories, Recollection

  Josephine Hart (1993). “Sin”

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• People think God is a man. People think God has got ears, nose, teeth and he rises daily in the morning, brushes his teeth and washes his mouth. And he is an old man and he has a beard. All these things people think. But no, God is energy. God is perfect and pure energy.

  Prem Rawat

  Morning, Men, Thinking

  Speech at Central Hall, Westminster, London, November 02, 1971.

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• My reasons for declaring a sexual preference had to do less with the pursuit of personal freedom than with the lust for pure shock value.

  Lance Loud

  Lust, Reason, Preference

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• The best part of being a mom to me is the unconditional love. I have never felt a love as pure, a love that's as rewarding.

  Monica Denise Brown

  Mom, Unconditional Love, Felt

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• There are poems
  that are never written,
  that simply move across
  the mind
  like skywriting
  on a still day:
  slowly the first word
  drifts west,
  the last letters dissolve
  on the tongue,
  and what is left
  is the pure blue
  of insight, without cloud
  or comfort.

  Linda Pastan

  Moving, Clouds, Blue

  Linda Pastan (2009). “給要離家的女兒”, p.38, 書林出版有限公司

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• There are some moments in life that are like pivots around which your existence turns—small intuitive flashes, when you know you have done something correct for a change, when you think you are on the right track. I watched a pale dawn streak the cliffs with Day-glo and realized this was one of them. It was a moment of pure, uncomplicated confidence—and lasted about ten seconds.

  Robyn Davidson

  Thinking, Track, Dawn

  Robyn Davidson (2012). “Tracks”, p.3, A&C Black

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• I feel like my pure and proper image is causing others to be really cautious about becoming close to me. They think I sleep as soon as it hits midnight

  Seohyun

  Sleep, Thinking, Midnight

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• For even these are no less bestowed on him of pure grace, than are righteousness and salvation themselves.

  Johann Arndt

  Grace, Salvation, Righteousness

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• Poincaré [was] the last man to take practically all mathematics, pure and applied, as his province. ... Few mathematicians have had the breadth of philosophic vision that Poincaré had, and none in his superior in the gift of clear exposition.

  Eric Temple Bell

  Men, Vision, Lasts

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• Modesty means to be free from undue familiarity, from indecency, from lewdness, pure in thought and conduct. Speaking of modest apparel, it means decent, seemly. The opposite of modesty is conceit, boldness, immodesty, brazenness, lewdness.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Mean, Opposites, Modesty

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• There is no disease, bodily or mental, which adoption of vegetable diet, and pure water has not infallibly mitigated, wherever the experiment has been fairly tried.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Vegetables, Water, Adoption

  Queen Mab Notes

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• The question is, when so many others cut corners, shave the truth, self-deal, believe in the fast buck, and follow the crowd along the low road of least resistance, can we even afford to travel the high road of ethical behavior? Frankly, we can't afford anything else. Any other competitive angle is a pure crapshoot in today's business world. Companies with shaky ethics and shabby standards will be crippled as they try to compete in our changing world.

  Price Pritchett

  Business, Believe, Cutting

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• Friends depart, and memory takes them To her caverns, pure and deep.

  Thomas Haynes Bayly

  Friendship, Memories, Caverns

  Thomas Haynes Bayly (1844). “Songs and Ballads, Grave and Gay”, p.48

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• What goes on in abstract art is the proclaiming of aesthetic principles... It is in our own time that we have become aware of pure aesthetic considerations. Art never can be imitation.

  Hans Hofmann

  Art, Principles, Goes On

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• No one doubts that pure libertarianism is simple, but that's just why it remains on the ideological fringe - because it boils down the most difficult questions in human affairs to a simple equation, a What Would the Market Do bumper sticker.

  Ross Douthat

  Simple, Difficult Questions, Doubt

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• The human being is a surprisingly resilient organism. We are impelled toward health not sickness. Your spirit, as surely as your body, will try to heal....So you should not fear tragedy and suffering. Like love, they make you more a part of the human family. From them can come your greatest creativity. They are the fire that burns you pure.

  Kent Nerburn

  Creativity, Fire, Like Love

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