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• It is a pleasant surprise to him (the pure mathematician) and an added problem if he finds that the arts can use his calculations, or that the senses can verify them, much as if a composer found that sailors could heave better when singing his songs.

  George Santayana

  Song, Art, Math

  George Santayana (2014). “Some Turns of Thought in Modern Philosophy”, p.81, Cambridge University Press

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• Before we had our becoming here, we existed There, men other than now; we were pure souls. Intelligence inbound with the entire of reality, not fenced off, integral to that All. [...] Then it was as if One voice sounded. One word was uttered and from every side an ear attended and received and there was an effective hearing; now we are become a dual thing, no longer that which we were at first, dormant, and in a sense no longer present.

  Plotinus

  Reality, Men, Voice

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• Fossey, Fossey, you cranky difficult strong-arming self-destructive misanthrope, mediocre scientist, deceiver of earnest college students, probable cause of more deaths of the gorillas than if you had never set foot in Rwanda, Fossey, you pain-in-the-ass saint, I do not believe in prayers or souls, but I will pray for your soul, I will remember you for all of my days, in gratitude for that moment by the graves when all I felt was the pure, cleansing sadness of returning home and finding nothing but ghosts.

  Robert M. Sapolsky

  Gratitude, Strong, Prayer

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• Out of the temptation of Hate, and burned by the fire of Despair, triumphant over Doubt, and steeled by Sacrifice against Humiliation, . . . He bent to all the gibes and prejudices, to all hatred and discrimination with that rare courtesy which is the armor of pure souls. . . . he simply worked, inspiring the young, rebuking the old, helping the weak, guiding the strong.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Strong, Hate, Sacrifice

  W. E. B. Du Bois (2014). “The Souls of Black Folk: The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois”, p.138, Oxford University Press

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• Like Daniel she enteres the lions' den, but lacking Daniel's pure and unblemished soul, Ada is spiced with the flavors of vice that make for a tasty meal. Pure and unblemished souls must taste very bland, with an aftertaste of bitterness.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Soul, Vices, Meals

  Barbara Kingsolver (2008). “The Poisonwood Bible”, p.106, Faber & Faber

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• Three marital bonds exist: Karmic, Dharmic and Cosmic. The first are of pain, misery, hunger, nakedness, disgrace. The second are of success, bliss, love, financial progress, etc. The third are only for the select, pure and holy souls and bring inexhaustible happiness.

  Samael Aun Weor

  Pain, Soul, Progress

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• In Islam, all living things have souls. We are made pure by the fire of the lord compassion.

  John Speed

  Compassion, Fire, Soul

  John Speed (2007). “The Temple Dancer: A Novel of India”, p.38, Macmillan

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• Perhaps, some day, humanity can start afresh, a new world, a tabula rasa, a world with a mind without prior experiences. No memories and no pain. A day when the ones with abundance do not look down at the poor and the needy, a day when we learn to care for the victims, the fallen souls of civilization and advancement, a day when the world will be pure. When all of humanity becomes a clean sheet of parchment, without knowledge and prejudice, simple, hungry for knowing, tasting, and feeling; hungry for life and ready to absorb the ink of experience.

  Henry Martyn

  Pain, Memories, Simple

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• ... if one were to refuse to have direct, geometric, intuitive insights, if one were reduced to pure logic, which does not permit a choice among every thing that is exact, one would hardly think of many questions, and certain notions ... would escape us completely.

  Henri Lebesgue

  Math, Thinking, Choices

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• Not secondary to the sun, she gives us his blaze again, Void of its flame, and sheds a softer day... In Heaven queen she is among the spheres; She, mistress-like, makes all things to be pure.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Queens, Moon, Flames

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Selected Essays of Henry David Thoreau”, p.247, Simon and Schuster

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• I am exclusively occupied with the problem of gravitation and hope with the help of a local mathematician friend [Marcel Grossman] to overcome all the difficulties. One thing is certain, however, that never in life have I been quite so tormented. A great respect for mathematics has been instilled within me, the subtler aspects of which, in my stupidity, I regarded until now as pure luxury.

  Albert Einstein

  Learning, Science, Discovery

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• In the Age of Perfect Virtue, men lived among the animals and birds as members of one large family. There were no distinctions between superior and inferior to separate one man or species from another. All retained their natural Virtue and lived in a state of pure simplicity.

  Benjamin Hoff

  Animal, Men, Perfect

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• Pure love is who you are! When you express pure love, you give yourself the direct experience of who you are. It is the greatest gift! It looks as if your giving a gift to others, and you are giving it to yourself, that is because there is no one else in the room, it only looks as if there is.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Love You, Love Is, Giving

  Neale Donald Walsch (2002). “Friendship with God: An Uncommon Dialogue”, p.134, Penguin

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• He [Columbus] enjoyed long stretches of pure delight such as only a seaman may know, and moments of high, proud exultation that only a discoverer can experience.

  Samuel Eliot Morison

  Long, Experience, Delight

  Samuel Eliot Morison, Emily Morison Beck (1989). “Sailor historian: the best of Samuel Eliot Morison”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• Prejudice is not bigotry or superstition, although prejudice sometimes may degenerate into these. Prejudice is pre-judgment, the answer with which intuition and ancestral consensus of opinion supply a man when he lacks either time or knowledge to arrive at a decision predicated upon pure reason.

  Russell Kirk

  Men, Decision, Intuition

  Russell Kirk (2001). “The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot”, p.38, Regnery Publishing

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• The empty mind - the pure mind - is not a blank, zero-land, where you're not feeling or caring about anything. It's an effulgence of the mind. It's a brightness that is truly sensitive and accepting. It's an ability to accept life as it is. When we accept life as it is, we can respond appropriately to the way we're experiencing it, rather than just reacting out of fear and aversion.

  Ajahn Sumedho

  Zero, Caring, Land

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• I was able to look out the window to see this incredible sight of the whole circle of the Earth. Oceans were crystal blue, the land was brown, and the clouds and the snow were pure white. And that jewel of Earth was just hung up in the blackness of space.

  Charles Duke

  Ocean, Clouds, Sight

  "In the Shadow of the Moon". Documentary, History, www.imdb.com. 2007.

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• The symbol of the lion, throughout history, throughout cultures, is one pure, radiant symbol and that is leadership, kingship

  Linda Tucker

  Culture, Lions, Kingship

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• The Holy Spirit is the immediate source of all holiness. He is entirely sincere, and perfect in love. He is generous. He is pure in heart, free from selfishness, and never swerves from the path of duty. He is deep like a fountain. He sends forth his virtues in due season. He speaks, and men believe him; he acts, and men are gladdened by him. He possesses all heavenly virtues. He is one with Heaven.

  Griffith John

  Believe, Heart, Men

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• Sacrifice is a demonstration of pure love.

  M. Russell Ballard

  Sacrifice, Demonstration, Pure Love

  M. Russell Ballard (2001). “When Thou Art Converted: Continuing Our Search for Happiness”, Deseret Book Company

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• What if criticism is a science as well as an art? Not a pure or exact science, of course, but these phrases belong to a nineteenth-century cosmology which is no longer with us.

  Northrop Frye

  Art, What If, Criticism

  Northrop Frye (2015). “Anatomy of Criticism”, p.7, Princeton University Press

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• The For-itself, in fact, is nothing but the pure nihilation of the In-itself; it is like a hole of being at the heart of Being.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Heart, Facts, Holes

  Jean-Paul Sartre (2002). “Jean-Paul Sartre: Basic Writings”, p.125, Routledge

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• My books are just pure escapism for kids.

  Dav Pilkey

  Book, Kids, Escapism

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Sunlight is one and the same wherever it falls; but only a bright surface like that of water, or of a mirror reflects it fully. So is the light Divine. It falls equally and impartially on all hearts, but the pure and pious hearts of holy men receive and reflect that light well.

  Ramakrishna

  Fall, Heart, Men

  "Sayings of Sri Ramakrishna". Book by Ramakrishna, p. 649, 1960.

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• Psychologically experienced consciousness is therefore no longer pure consciousness; construed Objectively in this way, consciousness itself becomes something transcendent, becomes an event in that spatial world which appears, by virtue of consciousness, to be transcendent.

  Edmund Husserl

  Events, World, Way

  Edmund Husserl, Peter McCormick, Frederick Elliston (1981). “Husserl, shorter works”, Univ of Notre Dame Pr

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