Famous quotes containing the word purely:
“Standards of conduct appropriate to civil society or the workings of a democracy cannot be purely and simply applied to the Church.”
—Joseph Ratzinger (b. 1927)
“I think that cars today are almost the exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals: I mean the supreme creation of an era, conceived with passion by unknown artists, and consumed in image if not in usage by a whole population which appropriates them as a purely magical object.”
—Roland Barthes (19151980)
“You dont want to be an animal, you want to observe your own animal functions, so as to get a mental thrill out of them. It is all purely secondaryand more decadent than the most hide-bound intellectualism.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)
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