To insist on purity is to baptize instinct, to humanize art, and to deify personality. – Guillaume Apollinaire
No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable. – James Baldwin
By two wings a man is lifted up from things earthly: by simplicity and purity. – Thomas Kempis
Purity of heart is to will one thing. – Soren Kierkegaard
We are not na?ve enough to ask for pure men; we ask merely for men whose impurity does not conflict with the obligations of their job. – Jean Rostand
The purity men love is like the mists which envelope the earth, and not like the azure ether beyond. – Henry David Thoreau
As pure water poured into pure water becomes the very same, so does the Self of the illumined man or woman verily become one with the Godhead. – Katha Upanishad
Purity is the power to contemplate defilement. – Simone Weil
Life does not need to mutilate itself in order to be pure. – Simone Weil
The sick do not ask if the hand that smoothes their pillow is pure, nor the dying care if the lips that touch their brow have known the kiss of sin. – Oscar Wilde
