Symbolism exists to adorn and enrich, not to create an artificial sense of profundity. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Comedy is hostile to profundity, and brings everything to the surface. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Profundity and originality are attributes of single, if not singular, minds. — Edwin Land Copy Share Image
“Being rich or famous is the only profound thing that some people have ever said.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
If you study life deeply, its profundity will seize you suddenly with dizziness. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Profundity of thought belongs to youth, clarity of thought to old age. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
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
The public easily confuses him who fishes in troubled waters with him who draws up water from the depths. — Friedrich Nietzsche 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
Philosophy is a corrective against sadness. Yet there still are people who believe in the profundity of philosophy! — Anonymous 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
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
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
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
Sometimes humans hit on a moment of profundity more complete than their dim minds could comprehend, and they took that nugget of… — Kelley Armstrong 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
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
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
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
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
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 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 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 really important facts were that spatial relationships had ceased to matter very much and that my mind was perceiving the world… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I speak as an unregenerate reader, one who still believes that language and not technology is the true evolutionary miracle. I have… — Sven Birkerts 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
“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
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
“Back to the root of the word “profundity,” it means insightful and understanding.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image