Profundity easily turns into dullness and astuteness deteriorates into wit. Be guided by natural common sense and it will accommodate great and… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
Philosophy is a corrective against sadness. Yet there still are people who believe in the profundity of philosophy! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In peace there is profundity from which the highest respect arises from respect comes power and command therefore observe peace. — Akkineni Nagarjuna Copy Share Image
The public easily confuses him who fishes in troubled waters with him who draws up water from the depths. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
When I talk of reality, I am always thinking of essentials. Profundity is not located in some remote, inaccessible region. It is… — Antoni Tapies Copy Share Image
You can't live your life in a state of profundity, because you're never going to get anything done, and you're just profound. — Timothy Spall Copy Share Image
Art is about profundity. It's about connecting to everything that it means to be alive, but you have to act. — Jeff Koons Copy Share Image
A man's profundity may keep him from opening on a first interview, and his caution on a second; but I should suspect… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
If you practice in accord with your individual capacity, little by little you will find more pleasure and joy in it. As… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Most people call something profound, not because it is near some important truth but because it is distant from ordinary life. Thus,… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
By undue profundity we perplex and enfeeble thought; and it is possible to make even Venus herself vanish from the firmament by… — Edgar Allan Poe 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
I believe that music offers us possibilities for analysis, at least in my case, more profound in many ways, but at the… — Bocafloja Copy Share Image
With its claims to profundity, boldness and originality, thinking still limits itself provisionally to the exclusively rational and scientific. ... As soon… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
Her mind traveled crooked streets and aimless goat paths, arriving sometimes at profundity, other times at the revelations of a three-year-old. Throughout… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
I guess I just always want to surprise myself and say something that I'm not really quite sure where it came from,… — David Shrigley 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
“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
“Here's a profundity, the best I can do: sometimes you just know… You just know when two people belong together. I had… — Charles Baxter Copy Share Image
“Profundity fails me.” Father Ramon's gaze rested on Loup. “And perhaps that is fitting, since words have never been your strong suit,… — Jacqueline Carey Copy Share Image
Could truth perhaps be a woman who has reasons for not permitting her reasons to be seen? Could her name perhaps be--to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Promise to give me a kiss on my brow when I am dead. --I shall feel it." She dropped her head again… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
When all the archetypes burst out shamelessly, we plumb the depths of Homeric profundity. Two clichés make us laugh but a hundred… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
The silliest and most tendentious of baseball writing tries to wrest profundity from the spectacle of grown men hitting a ball with… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
When I read the Upanishads, which are part of Vedanta, I found a profundity of worldview that made my Christianity seem like… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
I think there's as much profundity and wisdom in Shakespeare, more so in fact, than those in the Bible. — Steve Coogan Copy Share Image
All that is necessary to raise imbecility into what the mob regards as profundity is to lift it off the floor and… — George Jean Nathan Copy Share Image
Black and white are absolute...expressing the most delicate vibration, the most profound tranquility, and unlimited profundity. — Shiko Munakata Copy Share Image
Sometimes I try my hand at turning out small profundities and uncertain short stories, but I always end up with just one… — Etty Hillesum Copy Share Image
Men who think deeply appear to be comedians in their dealings with others because they always have to feign superficiality in order… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
At first there is nothing, then there is a profound nothingness, after that a blue profundity. — Yves Klein Copy Share Image
We're all vanishing organisms and disappearing creatures in space and time - that death sentence in space in time that Kafka talked… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Power is no more than a part, no more than the tip of the iceberg of limitless profundity and sublimate of Karate. — Mas Oyama Copy Share Image
It is a safe rule to apply that, when a mathematical or philosophical author writes with a misty profundity, he is talking… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Life is not all about profundity. Life is about little things that piss you off, little triumphs, little defeats. So, you can't… — Timothy Spall Copy Share Image
Few look for truth; many prowl about for a reputation of profundity by arrogantly challenging whichever arguments are the best. — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
So-called professional mathematicians have, in their reliance on the relative incapacity of the rest of mankind, acquired for themselves a reputation for… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
One’s visual language is not something that manifests overnight. It develops organically over a life-time. The shifts can be so subtle as… — Dan Winters Copy Share Image
Complexity and profundity have been equated by the academic culture just as fame and significance have been conflated by the popular culture.… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
