Profundity and originality are attributes of single, if…

The ordinary American voter does not object to mediocrity. He likes his candidate to be sensible, vigorous, and, above all, what he calls 'magnetic,'…

— James Bryce

With its claims to profundity, boldness and originality, thinking still limits itself provisionally to the exclusively rational and scientific. ... As soon as it…

— Robert Musil

There is no such thing as group originality, group creativity or group perspicacity.

— Edwin Land

The discipline of suffering, of great suffering- do you not know that only this discipline has created all enhancements of man so far? That…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Relaxing with something as familiar as loneliness is good discipline for realizing the profundity of the unresolved moments of our lives. We are cheating…

— Pema Chodron

In one sense what may pass between the pope and myself may be trivialities. In another sense the fact of talking trivialities is itself…

— Geoffrey Fisher

You can't learn pathos or profundity.

— Nigel Kennedy

Could truth perhaps be a woman who has reasons for not permitting her reasons to be seen? Could her name perhaps be--to speak Greek--Baubo?...…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Jazz music celebrates life! Human life; the range of it, the absurdity of it, the ignorance of it, the greatness of it, the intelligence…

— Wynton Marsalis

I'm glad that so many of Donald Pease's unique and revealing insights on Dr. Seuss--observations he shared with me on camera with an effusiveness…

— Ron Lamothe

Above all you must illumine your own soul with its profundities and its shallows, and its vanities and its generosities, and say what your…

— Virginia Woolf

I think there's as much profundity and wisdom in Shakespeare, more so in fact, than those in the Bible.

— Steve Coogan

In peace there is profundity from which the highest respect arises from respect comes power and command therefore observe peace.

— Akkineni Nagarjuna

The public easily confuses him who fishes in troubled waters with him who draws up water from the depths.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

At first there is nothing, then there is a profound nothingness, after that a blue profundity.

— Yves Klein