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OnceThere was a quiet island,With a name.You must believe me When I say that sunlight, Impure but beautiful, Broke upon the bay, silveredThe unrepentant, burning moon. -- Edwin Thumboo
Ideas should be neutral. But man animates them with his passions and folly. Impure and turned into beliefs, they take on the appearance of reality. The passage from logic is consummated. Thus are born ideologies, doctrines, and bloody farce. -- Emile M. Cioran
All real capitalisms are impure hybrids, mongrels mixed with other strains. -- Geoff Mulgan
As to the pure all things are pure, even so to the impure all things are impure. -- Augustus Hare
The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted. -- Saint Augustine
O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked. -- T. S. Eliot
Sometimes I see it and then paint it. Other times I paint it and then see it. Both are impure situations, and I prefer neither. -- Jasper Johns
Ignorance is the failure to discriminate between the permanent and the impermanent, the pure and the impure, bliss and suffering, the Self and the non-Self. -- Patanjali
Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even for the same performance. -- William O. Douglas
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. -- Rainer Maria Rilke
I feel like no one starts entertainment with an impure intention, but somewhere along the way, lines become blurred and you're no longer sure which way is up and which way is down. -- Jennette McCurdy
In the music industry, we value large success. I realized that while I would like that, that it's not what my writing is about. And if I start making it about that, it becomes impure. -- David Friedman
Philosophy is at its most engaged when it is impure. What is being recovered from the Ancient Greek model is not some lost idea of philosophy's pure essence, but the idea that philosophy is mixed up with everything else. -- Julian Baggini
If one commits the act of sodomy with a cow, an ewe, or a camel, their urine and their excrements become impure, and even their milk may no longer be consumed. The animal must then be killed and as quickly as possible and burned. -- Ruhollah Khomeini
There is a new venue for theory, necessarily impure, where it emerges in and as the very event of cultural translation. This is not the displacement of theory by historicism, nor a simple historicization of theory that exposes the contingent limits of its more generalizable claims. -- Judith Butler
Do not test out your mind on the grounds that you are examining what seductive and impure thoughts look like, imagining that, as you do this, you will not be overcome by them. Even the wise have in this way been thrown into confusion and become infatuated. -- Isaac of Nineveh
Pure by impure is not seen. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Pure motives can never justify impure or violent action. -- Mahatma Gandhi
If the heart be impure, all actions would be wrong. -- Indian
To the Puritan all things are impure, as somebody says. -- D. H. Lawrence
Within our impure mind the pure one is to be found. -- Huineng
I'm not a purist. I'm not impure enough to be a purist. -- Eleanor Antin
My fight against untouchability is a fight against the impure in humanity. -- Mahatma Gandhi
One must be a sea, to receive a polluted stream without becoming impure. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
When Satan makes impure verses, Allah sends a divine tune to cleanse them. -- George Bernard Shaw
Many actions, like the Rhone, have two sources,--one pure, the other impure. -- Augustus William Hare
Reformers who are obsessed with purity and cannot see that their obsession is impure. -- E. M. Forster
If you will not determine to be pure, you will grow more and more impure. -- George MacDonald
This impure world that we presently experience exists only in relation to our impure mind. -- Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
When the thinking of a people becomes corrupt, the pure silver becomes impure in its hands. -- Muhammad Iqbal
Often writing is like a struggle to get back to a kind of belated, quite impure virginity. -- Harold Brodkey
If you think you will get something from practicing zazen, already you are involved in impure practice. -- Shunryu Suzuki
Hell hath no fury like a frustrated fundamentalist whose God condemned him to "hell" for having "impure thoughts." -- Michael R. Burch
In the name of God, impure souls of the living dead shall be banished into eternal damnation. Amen. -- Kohta Hirano
If your mind is filled with the Word of God, then it can't be filled with impure thoughts. -- David Jeremiah
I should wish to die if a man who is impure should parade his purity in front of me. -- Mahatma Gandhi
He who befriends a man whose conduct is vicious, whose vision impure, and who is notoriously crooked, is rapidly ruined. -- Chanakya
All orthodox opinion - that is, today, "revolutionary" opinion either of the pure or the impure variety - is anti-man. -- Wyndham Lewis
You must squeeze every atom of impure air from lungs until they are almost as free of air as a vacuum. -- Joseph Pilates
whatever devotion to something else there was in him had been made impure by church taken as a weekly, dutiful thing. -- Kay Boyle
Man the sum of what have you. A problem in impure properties carried tediously to an unvarying nil: stalemate of dust and desire. -- William Faulkner
Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If with an impure mind a person speaks or acts suffering follows him like the wheel that follows the foot of the ox. -- Gautama Buddha
Secrets. I can't take then with me. If I do, when I go, when I arrive at my final destination, I'll be . . . impure. -- Julie Anne Peters
All contempt for the sexual life, all denigration under the concept 'impure" is the essential crime against Life- against the Holy Spirit of Life". -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Christianity is not about not swearing. It's not about not having impure thoughts. Really, it's not about not at all. Christianity is about Jesus. -- Judah Smith
He who would be useful, strong, and happy must cease to be a passive receptacle for the negative, beggarly, and impure streams of thought. -- James Allen
A living man is blind and drinks his drop. What matter if the ditches are impure? What matter if I live it all once more? -- William Butler Yeats
Disraeli was my favourite Tory. He was an adventurer pure and simple, or impure and complex. I'm glad to say Gladstone got the better of him. -- Michael Foot
There is something in corruption which, like a jaundiced eye, transfers the color of itself to the object it looks upon, and sees everything stained and impure. -- Thomas Paine
In short: if one has nothing of value to say, only that which is impure defilement, avoid them. They are masters of the dark. Of no use. -- Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo
Did any man at his death ever regret his conflicts with himself, his victories over appetite, his scorn of impure pleasure, or his sufferings for righteousness' sake? -- William Ellery Channing
The man of impure speech is a person whose lips are but an opening and a supply pipe which hell uses to vomit its impurities upon the earth. -- John Vianney
Every fact is impure, but every fact contains in it the juices of life. Every fact is a clod, from which may grow an amaranth or a palm. -- Margaret Fuller
You know the worst: your wills are fickle, Your values blurred, your hearts impure And your past life a ruined church-- But let your poison be your cure. -- Louis MacNeice
Purity is something that can be consciously developed. Expect to have impure moments, thoughts, and ideas. One day they will go away, and then there will be happiness. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Language is an impure medium. Speech is public property and words are the soiled products, not of nature, but of society, which circulates and uses them for a thousand different ends. -- Edward Hirsch
Knowledge is an excellent drug; but no drug has virtue enough to preserve itself from corruption and decay, if the vessel be tainted and impure wherein it is put to keep. -- Michel de Montaigne
Children, do not listen to those who malign masters and sages. Never listen to or indulge in derogatory talk about anyone. When we harbor negative thoughts about others, our minds become impure. -- Mata Amritanandamayi
We oppose and abhor the damnable practice of wholesale abortion and every other unholy and impure act which strikes at the very foundation of the home and family, our most basic institutions. -- Ezra Taft Benson
Call'd to the temple of impure delight He that abstains, and he alone, does right. If a wish wander that way, call it home; He cannot long be safe whose wishes roam. -- William Cowper
Man the sum of his climatic experiences Father said. Man the sum of what have you. A problem in impure properties carried tediously to an unvarying nil: stalemate of dust and desire. -- William Faulkner
Zazen's music is composed in other dimensions and it is played by some of my students. I go through the music they have played with my aura and wash out anything impure. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
The huge majority of philosophers seem to think that including impure properties in the range of the quantifiers of the principle would make the principle trivial. I have argued that it does not. -- Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra
Another great illusion that woman must ... destroy . .. is the impurity of sex, the realisation in defiance of superstition that there is nothing impure in sex - except in the mental attitude toward it ... -- Mina Loy
Fasting cures diseases, dries up bodily humors, puts demons to flight, gets rid of impure thoughts, makes the mind clearer and the heart purer, the body sanctified, and raises man to the throne of God. -- Athenaeus
Pleasure and guilt are synonymous terms in the language of the monks, and they discovered, by experience, that rigid fasts, and abstemious diet, are the most effectual preservatives against the impure desires of the flesh. -- Edward Gibbon

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