“The plastic virtues: purity, unity, and truth, keep nature in subjection.”
Guillaume Apollinaire
“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
Oscar Wilde
“Purity and simplicity are the two wings with which man soars above the earth and all temporary nature.”
Thomas Kempis
“Persons of demonic nature do not know what to do and what not to do. They neither have purity nor good conduct nor truthfulness.”
Bhagavad Gita
“Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.”
Thomas Merton
“Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.”
David Hare
“Purity is a negative state and therefore contrary to nature.”
William Faulkner
