#pure

Generality is, indeed, an indispensable ingredient of reality; for mere individual existence or actuality without any regularity whatever is a nullity. Chaos is pure nothing. ↗

— Charles Sanders Peirce

#any #chaos #existence #generality #indeed

That on a romantic level, if you feel it about somebody and it's pure, it means that they do too. ↗

— Sean Penn

#about #feel #level #means #pure

Most people who came here came for economic reasons or sometimes for religious or political reasons. I didn't have any of this. I came here, I liked it, I stayed. So I'm a pure American - even more than people who are born here - because I did it by choice as an adult. ↗

— Jacques Pepin

#american #any #because #born #came

Animals speak with pure affection. It's important to me to get something going in NY so we can get to be a no-kill city, and give the animals homes and more attention and love. ↗

— Bernadette Peters

#attention #city #get #give #going

Music is probably the only real magic I have encountered in my life. There's not some trick involved with it. It's pure and it's real. It moves, it heals, it communicates and does all these incredible things. ↗

— Tom Petty

#does #encountered #heals #i #incredible

Rich kids gave us their old clothes. They were the best clothes we ever had. We were these very pure, naive, poor children. The rich kids called us a lot of names but it never bothered us because we didn't know what the words meant. ↗

— River Phoenix

#best #bothered #called #children #clothes

In other words, knowledge of the external world begins with an immediate utilisation of things, whereas knowledge of self is stopped by this purely practical and utilitarian contact. ↗

— Jean Piaget

#contact #external #external world #immediate #in other words

When I work I am pure as an angel tiger and clear is my eye and hot my brain and silent all the whining grunting piglets of the appetites. ↗

— Marge Piercy

#angel #appetites #brain #clear #eye

Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return. ↗

— Peace Pilgrim

#give #love #love is #pure #pure love

So much of life, it seems to me, is determined by pure randomness. ↗

— Sidney Poitier

#life #me #much #pure #randomness