I never desired to really go to Hollywood and make films, and purely because I want my entire control, which I'm used to having.
Designs of purely arbitrary nature cannot be expected to last long.
Relativity is a purely scientific matter and has nothing to do with religion.
A purely objective viewpoint does not exist in the cosmos or in politics.
There is, inside all our heads, the ego’s rabid attack dog. It is purely vicious toward others and toward ourselves as well. Learning to control that dog, and ultimately to end its life, is the process and purpose of enlightened relationships.
Every one of the numberless religions and religious sects views the Deity after its own fashion; and, fathering on the unknown its own speculations, it enforces these purely human outgrowths of overheated imagination on the ignorant masses, and calls them "revelation. " As the dogmas of every religion and sect often differ radically, they cannot be true. And if untrue, what are they?
I do feel that a poem needs not just space, but, ideally, space around that space - space for meditation, reverie, subliminal link-ups. I sense that poetry happens at a level above or below intelligence. It doesn't come into being at a purely rational level.
A book on the new physics, if not purely descriptive of experimental work, must essentially be mathematical.
Even if we could be certain that one of the world's religions were perfectly true, given the sheer number of conflicting faiths on offer, every believer should expect damnation purely as a matter of probability.
When I make a film, I'm not doing it purely for political reasons. If I just wanted to do that, I'd run for office.
What has been forgotten. . . . is never something purely individual.
The biggest danger of Hollywood becoming a purely corporate town resides in the creative process.
I never view aesthetic ideas as having an existence purely of their own but as a function they have in connection with political or moral values.
I have said more than once, that I hold space to be something purely relative, as time; an order of coexistences, as time is an order of successions.
You're never going to learn something as profoundly as when it's purely out of curiosity
The national question is purely a peasant question. . . the best way to eliminate nationality is a massive factory with thousands of workers. . . , which like a millstone grinds up all nationalities and forges a new nationality. This nationality is the universal proletariat.
Every genius is a great child; he gazes out at the world as something strange, a spectacle, and therefore with purely objective interest
Live purely in the moment on a rampage of appreciation.
The value of an idea has nothing whatsoever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it. Indeed, the probabilities are that the more insincere the man is, the more purely intellectual will the idea be, as in that case it will not be coloured by either his wants, his desires, or his prejudices.
My analysis was directed toward purely physical conditions, such as defective wiring, presence of lack of air spaces between metal flues and woodwork, etc. , and the results were presented in these terms.