Famous quotes containing the words pure and/or reason:
“Such pure and genuine and childlike love of Nature is hardly to be found in any poet.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“In my blood there is no Jewish blood.
In their callous rage, all antisemites must hate me now as a Jew.
For that reason I am a true Russian.”
—Yevgeny Yevtushenko (b. 1933)