“Being rich or famous is the only profound thing that some people have ever said.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Profundity and originality are attributes of single, if not singular, minds. — Edwin Land Copy Share Image
Comedy is hostile to profundity, and brings everything to the surface. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Symbolism exists to adorn and enrich, not to create an artificial sense of profundity. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Back to the root of the word “profundity,” it means insightful and understanding.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“In the Order we call it ‘inverse profundity.’ We’ve observed it in any number of cases. The deeper you go into the… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
Commitment to a set of rules frees your play to attain a profundity and vigor otherwise impossible. — Stephen Nachmanovitch Copy Share Image
Experience has taught me that the shallowest of communist platitudes contains more of a hierarchy of meaning than contemporary bourgeois profundity. — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
The qualities of a great man are vision, integrity, courage, understanding, the power of articulation, and profundity of character. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I know that my only chance at any kind of depth or profundity is to linger within the story, trying to make… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
The immense profundity of thought in vulgar locutions, like holes dug by generations of ants. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Of love it may be said, the less earthly the less demonstrative. In its absolutely indestructible form it reaches a profundity in… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
The spirit of poetry combines the profundity of the philosopher and the child's delight in bright pictures. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
Whoever knows he is deep tries to be clear, but whoever wants to seem deep to the crowd tries to be obscure.… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“If you take some words at random and put them together, it becomes gibberish, and everyone who knows the meaning of words… — Satyajit Ray Copy Share Image
The religious stories, the religious truths, the spiritual principles - obviously, they don't change. But as you get older and you experience… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
I had left the visible, physical blue at the door, outside, in the street. The real blue was inside, the blue of… — Yves Klein Copy Share Image
No, I won't leave the world--I'll enter a lunatic asylum and see if the profundity of insanity reveals to me the riddles… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
A big silvery janitor. Penny, this can’t be how the universe works.” “In the Order we call it ‘inverse profundity.’ We’ve observed… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
The vast difference between astrology and other sciences, if I may put it thus, is that astrology deals not with facts but… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
What makes philosophy so tedious is not the profundity of philosophers, but their lack of art; they are like physicians who soughtto… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“You still long for freedom, my friend, and that longing is your cage. You do not even realize what you are missing,… — James Curcio Copy Share Image
Poetry interprets in two ways: it interprets by expressing, with magical felicity, the physiognomy and movements of the outward world; and it… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
People who came to the clinics or came to the fundraiser knew what was happening in their state but didn't realize the… — Lizz Winstead Copy Share Image
“Questions are not happenstance thoughts nor are questions common problems of today which one picks up from hearsay and booklearning and decks… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
It is only great pain--that slow, sustained pain that takes its time, in which we are, as it were, burned with smoldering… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The greatest achievements in the science of this [twentieth] century are themselves the sources of more puzzlement than human beings have ever… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
“The desert and the ocean are realms of desolation on the surface. The desert is a place of bones, where the innards… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
The discipline of suffering, of great suffering- do you not know that only this discipline has created all enhancements of man so… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The amount of chiaroscuro an idea harbors is the only index of its profundity. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
I am not a serious person. I don't claim any profundity for any of my writing. — Khushwant Singh Copy Share Image
If you study life deeply, its profundity will seize you suddenly with dizziness. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
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