Pure State

Famous quotes containing the words pure and/or state:

    “No advantages in this world are pure and unmixed.”
    —David Hume (1711–1776)

    “My facts shall be falsehoods to the common sense. I would so state facts that they shall be significant, shall be myths or mythologic. Facts which the mind perceived, thoughts which the body thought—with these I deal.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)