Literary notes about Pure (AI summary)
Across literary works, "pure" is employed to invoke a sense of unadulterated essence—be it moral, intellectual, or material. In spiritual and ethical contexts, it signifies a state of innocence and clarity, as in the depiction of a pure heart that allows one to experience the divine ([1],[2],[3]). Philosophical discussions use the term to highlight untainted reason and knowledge, free from empirical contamination, as argued in critical texts on a priori understanding ([4],[5],[6],[7]). Moreover, "pure" is applied in tangible descriptions, from the mention of pure gold and pure water to characterize unparalleled quality ([8],[9],[10],[11]), underscoring its versatile role in evoking both internal virtue and external excellence.
- Blessed are the pure in heart; for they shall see God.
— from School Reading By Grades: Fifth Year by James Baldwin - Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.
— from Sacred Hymns from the GermanTranslated by Frances Elizabeth Cox - A pure heart seeth the very depths of heaven and hell.
— from The Imitation of Christ by à Kempis Thomas - Pure knowledge a priori is that with which no empirical element is mixed up.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant - For pure reason never relates immediately to objects, but to the conceptions of these contained in the understanding.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant - No synthetical proposition of pure transcendental reason can be so evident, as is often rashly enough declared, as the statement, twice two are four.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant - The explanation of this whole is the proper object of the transcendental problems of pure reason.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant - Some consider blue "to be the color of pure water, whether liquid or solid.
— from Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau - It had twelve beautifully made brooch pins of pure gold with which to fasten it.
— from The Odyssey by Homer - The water thus distilled was perfectly pure, well tasted, and free from salt; and was used on various occasions on board the ship.
— from The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African by Equiano - The money which by the joint agreement of them all was sent unto him, amounted to six score and fourteen millions, two crowns and a half of pure gold.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais
