"The highest form of pure thought is in mathematics."
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"Keep your heart pure. A pure heart is necessary to see God in each other. If you see God in each other, there is love for each other, then there is peace."
"You are not merely the body; you are 100% Pure Being. But you must find this out for yourself. It must become your own discovery, happening in your innermost being."
"Except in pure mathematics, nothing is known for certain (although much is certainly false)."
"Never let anybody guess that you have a mind of your own. Above all be pure"
"The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself."
"There is nothing I like more than pure underground music"
"Joy is a marvelous increasing of what exists, a pure addition out of nothingness."
"Delight is the secret. Learn of pure delight and thou shalt learn of God."
"The sky was pure opal now."
"God can never be realized by one who is not pure of heart."
"Innocence is not pure so much as pleased, Always expectant, bright-eyed, self-enclosed"
"Increase of love brings increase of happiness, when it is mutual, and pure as that will be."
"The mind, unless it is pure and holy, cannot see God."
"The one thing worth living for is to keep one's soul pure."
"Blessed are the pure in heart for they have so many more things to talk about."
"Happiness is pure kitch; we come into the world to suffer and learn."
"The limited circle is pure."
"Pure wisdom always directs itself towards God; the purest wisdom is knowledge of God."
"Uncertainty is the fertile ground of pure creativity and freedom."
"I take it to be true that pure thought can grasp the real, as the ancients had dreamed."