By two wings a man is lifted up from things earthly: by simplicity and purity. – Thomas Kempis Category: Purity
To insist on purity is to baptize instinct, to humanize art, and to deify personality. – Guillaume Apollinaire Category: Purity
No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable. – James Baldwin Category: Purity
America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future. – Frederick Douglass Category: Future
Survival, in the cool economics of biology, means simply the persistence of ones own genes in the generations to follow. – Lewis Thomas Category: cool