Pure Quotes - Page 29

• I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to fall into pure bottomlessness forever. Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart.

  Wendell Berry

  Prayer, Lying, Fall

  Wendell Berry (2000). “Jayber Crow: A Novel”, Counterpoint LLC

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• A popular cliche in philosophy says that science is pure analysis or reductionism, like taking the rainbow to pieces; and art is pure synthesis, putting the rainbow together. This is not so. All imagination begins by analyzing nature.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Art, Philosophy, Imagination

  Jacob Bronowski (1976). “The ascent of man”

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• What in me is pure conviction is simple prejudice in you.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Simple, Prejudice, Conviction

  Phyllis McGinley (1951). “A Short Walk from the Station”

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• There is only one proved method of assisting the advancement of pure science-that of picking men of genius, backing them heavily, and leaving them to direct themselves.

  James Bryant Conant

  Men, Leaving, Genius

  Letter to the Editor, N.Y. Times, 13 Aug. 1945

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• How marvelous it all is! Built not by saints and angels, but the work of men's hands; cemented with men's honest blood and with a world of tears, welded by the best brains of centuries past; not without the taint and reproach incidental to all human work, but constructed on the whole with pure and splendid purpose. Human, and yet not wholly human -- for the most heedless and the most cynical must see the finger of the Divine.

  Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery

  Angel, Past, Men

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• Now, for pure bloggers, for individual people who are just posting their own thoughts, they would still run the same risk of saying something wrong or embarrassing, but they wouldn't harm their institutions by doing so.

  Gregg Easterbrook

  Running, People, Risk

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• Love has its roots in sex, but its foliage and flowers are in the pure light of spirit.

  Salvador de Madariaga

  Love, Sex, Flower

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• If you really want to find out something about immortality, you have to live in the mountain forests for 30 years. If you succeed in perfecting your eyes and ears there, if you harmonize the heart and the will so that your mind becomes clear and pure and free of all that is evil, you will be able to discuss the matter.

  Wang Yangming

  Heart, Eye, Years

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• It is the middle and pure height and whole of summer and a summer night, the held breath, of a planet's year; high shored sleeps the crested tide: what day of the month I do not know, which day of the week I am not sure, far less what hour of the night.

  James Agee

  Summer, Sleep, Night

  James Agee, Walker Evans (2001). “Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Three Tenant Families”, p.46, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There can't be a pure myth, especially when the myth has been handed down in the oral tradition. As the stories are told, they change. If the stories don't change they just die.

  Maxine Hong Kingston

  Stories, Oral Tradition, Don't Change

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• The Westerners have lost the vision of heaven, they go hunting for the pure spirit in the belly. The pure soul takes not color and scent from the body, and Communism has nothing to do save with the body.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Hunting, Color, Heaven

  Muhammad Iqbal (2012). “Javid-Nama (RLE Iran B)”, p.53, Taylor & Francis

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• When the thinking of a people becomes corrupt, the pure silver becomes impure in its hands.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Thinking, Hands, People

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• Not only is the Napoleonic dream stronger today in our imaginations than it has ever been, but one can already feel the slow falling away of moral opprobrium from our memory of Hitler. In another fifty years we may well find ourselves weighed down by a second monstrous dream of pure grandeur to match that of the Emperor. Two men who dared. Two men who were adored. Two men who led with brilliance. Two men who administered fairly and efficiently. Two men who were modest in their own needs but surrounded by lesser beings who profited from their situation and came between the Hero and the people.

  John Ralston Saul

  Dream, Memories, Fall

  John Ralston Saul (2013). “Voltaire's Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West”, p.74, Simon and Schuster

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• Singing is near miraculous because it is the mastering of what is otherwise a pure instrument of egotism: the human voice.

  Hugo von Hofmannsthal

  Music, Voice, Singing

  Hugo von Hofmannsthal (1952). “Selected prose”

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• God is not the mere dead conception to which we have thus given utterance, but he is in himself pure Life.

  Johann Gottlieb Fichte

  Utterance, Given, Mere

  "Outline of the Doctrine of Knowledge" by Johann Gottlieb Fichte, 1810.

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• In pure literature, the writers of the eighteenth century achieved, indeed, many triumphs; but their great, their peculiar, triumphs were in the domain of thought.

  Lytton Strachey

  Triumph, Peculiar, Literature

  Lytton Strachey (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Lytton Strachey (Illustrated)”, p.77, Delphi Classics

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• The length of sky is just about the size of my ignorance. Pure and wide.

  Louise Erdrich

  Ignorance, Sky, Size

  Louise Erdrich (2010). “Love Medicine”, p.37, Odyssey Editions

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• If I were to adopt pure mechanism as a philosophy, there would be no way I could choose to be a scholar.

  Kenneth Lee Pike

  Philosophy, Would Be, Way

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• Science is the pursuit of pure truth, and the systematizing of it.

  P. T. Barnum

  Pursuit

  P. T. Barnum (2013). “The Humbugs of the World”, p.12, Lulu.com

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• The object of pure Physic[s] is the unfolding of the laws of the intelligible world; the object of pure Mathematic[s] that of unfolding the laws of human intelligence.

  James Joseph Sylvester

  Law, World, Physics

  "Memorabilia Mathematica". Book by Robert Edouard Moritz, 1914.

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• There's a point you get to on the stage where you're not remembering lines but living them, and you reach this pure moment which, really, is more intense than what you can achieve in life.

  Bill Pullman

  Lines, Remember, Moments

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• Probably my favorite piece of music, as an album taken as a whole, is Bruce Springsteen's 'Greetings from Asbury Park.' I just think it's incredibly pure. It's a sound that sort of broke new ground, and I think it paved the way for a hundred people that sound very similar.

  Shane Black

  Taken, Thinking, People

  Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. October 21, 2005.

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• I wish I came from a more pure place. I don't have something to say from the bottom of my soul. I just know how to take stuff I like and repackage it in a slightly different way.

  Adam Brody

  Stuff I Like, Soul, Wish

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Basically if you burst into my office the walls themselves will flutter as if alive - maybe that's the reason for all the wings in 'Pure.

  Julianna Baggott

  Wall, Wings, Office

  "Q&A with Pure Author Julianna Baggott". Interview with Melissa Wiley, geekdad.com. April 4, 2012.

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• Most books aren't pure nonfiction or fiction.

  James Frey

  Book, Fiction, Nonfiction

  "James Frey’s Own Personal Jesus". Interview with Nate Freeman, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 3, 2010.

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