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
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
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
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
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
“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
“The endless procession of people and things that forms the world is for me an interminable gallery of pictures whose content bores… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“God knew man would evolve. People think some of the Old Testament laws are absurd now because we live in a very… — Criss Jami 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
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
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
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
With deep men, as with deep wells, it takes a long time for anything that falls into them to hit bottom. Onlookers,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
This is a large part of the academic profession: to make up complex, subtle arguments that are childishly ridiculous but are enveloped… — Noam Chomsky 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
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
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
The real deep text of music and the whole reason that it has continued with the profundity and urgency that it has… — Michael Tilson Thomas Copy Share Image
When a man’s heart is right with God the mysterious utterances of the Bible are spirit and life to him. Spiritual truth… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
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