“There are few things as nauseating as pure obedience.”

“I think it would be well, and proper, and obedient, and pure, to grasp your one necessity and not let it go, to dangle from it limp wherever it takes you.”

“Mathematics is the bold luxury of pure reason, one of the few that remain today.”

“People are like music; few, pure harmony... many, only noise.”

“I want to start a revolution, I can't change things overnight but in 100–200 years, there will be very few pure Japanese left, so we have to start changing the way we think.”

“These are our few live seasons. Let us live them as purely as we can, in the present.”

“Give me few men and women who are pure and selfless and I shall shake the world.”

“The Pure Mind and the Pure Ātman are one and the same thing. Whatever comes up in the Pure Mind is the voice of God.”

“Anybody can be charming if they don't mind faking it, saying all the stupid, obvious, nauseating things that a conscience keeps most people from saying. Happily, I don't have a conscience. I say them.”

“Historically, the most terrible things - war, genocide, and slavery - have resulted not from disobedience, but from obedience.”