“So long as we exalt artists as beautiful liars or as the world’s most profound truth-tellers, we remain locked in a moralistic… — Maggie Nelson Copy Share Image
Story is morally neutral. It can express profound truth or propaganda. The two greatest political storytellers of the 20th Century were Winston… — Robert McKee Copy Share Image
The end (goal) of art is to figure the hidden meaning of things and not their appearance; for in this profound truth… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
One of the favorite maxims of my father was the distinction between the two sorts of truths, profound truths recognized by the… — Niels Bohr Copy Share Image
In a sense, New Age gurus are akin to postmodernists within academia. They dispense meaningless drivel that masquerades as profound truths whilst… — Gad Saad Copy Share Image
you're an insomniac, you tell yourself: there are profound truths revealed only to the insomniac by night like those phosphorescent minerals veined… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
There is a geographical element in all belief-saying what seem profound truths in India have a way of seeming enormous platitudes in… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Last night I asked Alessandro if he ever lies in bed and thinks about chocolate—say, about the way dark chocolate feels in… — Eloisa James Copy Share Image
“Every day we slaughter our finest impulses. That is why we get a heartache when we read those lines written by the… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
It is so important that our lives are built not on our feelings or circumstances, but on the word of God, and… — Stuart Townend Copy Share Image
“This is another trick of shrinks. They never let you stop in midthought. If you open your mouth, they want to know… — Ned Vizzini Copy Share Image
“Besides the Four Alternatives, Zen uses the Five Categories[FN#203] in order to explain the relation between reality and phenomena. The first is… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
“After over six hundred hours of listening, John knew two more things: That the most profound truth lay in the labyrinths that… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
But I hope that it will also be demonstrated soon that in my experiments in the West I was not merely beholding… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
“The most profound truths are often found in the simplest of questions, yet the answers remain elusive until we dare to ask them.” — G. Plason Z. Plakar Copy Share Image
“the party line is that some of the most profound truths about us are things that we stop saying in the middle,… — Ned Vizzini Copy Share Image
Every man, when he gets quiet, when he becomes desperately honest with himself, is capable of uttering profound truths. We all derive… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
A myth... is a metaphor for a mystery beyond human comprehension. It is a comparison that helps us understand, by analogy, some… — Christopher Vogler Copy Share Image
In terms of what I write about, I consider no subject too small. Often it's the small moments, that through the amplification… — Allison Joseph Copy Share Image