“Simplicity and purity are the two wings by which a man is lifted above all earthly things. Simplicity is in the intention - purity in the affection. Simplicity tends to God, - purity apprehends and tastes Him.” MenTwoTasteWingsIntentionSimplicityAffectionPurityEarthly Things Author:Thomas a Kempis
“We do not know either unalloyed happiness or unmitigated misfortune. Everything in this world is a tangled yarn; we taste nothing in its purity; we do not remain two moments in the same state. Our affections as well as bodies, are in a perpetual flux.” KnowsWorldWellsTwoStatesMomentsBodyChangeThis WorldTasteAffectionPurityMisfortunesPerpetualTangledFluxYarn Author:Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“Our purity of taste is best tested by its universality, for if we can only admire this thing or that, we maybe use that our cause for liking is of a finite and false nature.” IfsUseCausesTasteAdmirePurityTestedFiniteUniversality Book:Selections and Essays Source: Selections and Essays
“Perfect taste is the faculty of receiving the greatest possible pleasure from those material sources which are attractive to oar moral nature in its purity and perfection.” PerfectPleasureMoralMaterialsSourceTastePerfectionAttractivePurityFacultyReceivingOar Author:John Ruskin
“When Julian ascended the throne, he declared his impatience to embrace and reward the Syrian sophist, who had preserved, in a degenerate age, the Grecian purity of taste, of manners and of religion. The emperor's prepossession was increased and justified by the discreet pride of his favourite.” AgeHistoryPrideTasteEmbraceRewardsMannersPurityFavouriteThronesJustifiedImpatienceEmperorRoman EmpireDegeneratesDiscreet Book:The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
“Men, generally going with the stream, seldom judge for themselves, and purity of taste is almost as rare as talent.” MenTalentJudgingTasteJudgmentStreamsPurity Book:A Philosophical Dictionary Source: A Philosophical Dictionary