Diogenes Quotes

The sun too penetrates into privies, but is not polluted by them.

The sun, too, shines into cesspools and is not polluted.

Discontent is like ink poured into water, which fills the whole fountain full of blackness.

The Bible is a sanctum; the world, sputum.

The sun shineth upon the dunghill, and is not corrupted.

We live in a world that is filled with filth and sleaze, a world that reeks of evil. You cannot afford that filthy poison to touch you. Stay away from it. Avoid it.

When you mix raisins and turds, you've still got turds.

Frequent not the company of immodest persons, especially if they be also impudent, as is generally the case; ...these corrupted souls and infected hearts scarcely speak to any, either of the same or a different sex, without causing them to fall in some degree from purity; they have poison in their eyes and in their breath, like basilisks. On the contrary, keep company with the chaste and virtuous; often meditate upon and read holy things; for the word of God is chaste, and makes those also chaste that delight in it.

Pure by impure is not seen.

None of us can avoid being contaminated by the world's evils; it's all a matter of what attitude you take towards them.

Love is the lotus, lust is the mud the lotus arises out of.

Satan's smoke has made its way into the Temple of God through some crack

There are no uncontaminated angels

One drop of hatred in your soul will spread and discolor everything like a drop of black ink in white milk.

I know those little phrases that seem so innocuous, and, once you let them in, pollute the whole of speech. 'Nothing is more real than nothing.' They rise up out of the pit and know no rest until they drag you down into its dark.

When you mix dirt with water, the dirt doesn't get clean. The water just gets dirty.

Remember, young men, that purity precedes power. The Lord said, 'But purify your hearts before me; and then go ye into all the world, and preach my gospel unto every creature who has not received it' (D&C 112:28). Missionaries discover this very early in their missions and make every effort to be worthy so they can serve with power.

Civil disobedience can only lead to strength and purity.

Above all shadows rides the sun.

The cleanest souls are the easiest to soil.

And worse I may be yet: the worst is not So long as we can say 'This is the worst.

The greater our innocence, the greater our strength and the swifter our victory

People like to think of themselves as purists, but there is no such thing as purity, when there exists so much contact.

Allow the purity of evil to guide you.

There had to be dark and muddy waters so that the sun could have something to background it's flashing glory.