Famous quotes containing the words supreme and/or pure:
“Liberalismit is well to recall this todayis the supreme form of generosity; it is the right which the majority concedes to minorities and hence it is the noblest cry that has ever resounded in this planet. It announces the determination to share existence with the enemy; more than that, with an enemy which is weak.”
—José Ortega Y Gasset (18831955)
“Whenever a person strives, by the help of dialectic, to start in pursuit of every reality by a simple process of reason, independent of all sensuous informationnever flinching, until by an act of the pure intelligence he has grasped the real nature of goodhe arrives at the very end of the intellectual world.”
—Plato (c. 427347 B.C.)