Profundity and originality are attributes of single, if not singular, minds. — Edwin Land 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“Ask a true scientist a very profound question on his science, and he will be silent. Ask a true religious person a… — Kedar Joshi 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
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
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
Above all you must illumine your own soul with its profundities and its shallows, and its vanities and its generosities, and say… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Jazz music celebrates life! Human life; the range of it, the absurdity of it, the ignorance of it, the greatness of it,… — Wynton Marsalis 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
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
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
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
“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
“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
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
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 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
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
The public easily confuses him who fishes in troubled waters with him who draws up water from the depths. — 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
I know that my only chance at any kind of depth or profundity is to linger within the story, trying to make… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
The qualities of a great man are vision, integrity, courage, understanding, the power of articulation, and profundity of character. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Experience has taught me that the shallowest of communist platitudes contains more of a hierarchy of meaning than contemporary bourgeois profundity. — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
Commitment to a set of rules frees your play to attain a profundity and vigor otherwise impossible. — Stephen Nachmanovitch Copy Share Image
“In the Order we call it ‘inverse profundity.’ We’ve observed it in any number of cases. The deeper you go into the… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
The spirit of poetry combines the profundity of the philosopher and the child's delight in bright pictures. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
The immense profundity of thought in vulgar locutions, like holes dug by generations of ants. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Of love it may be said, the less earthly the less demonstrative. In its absolutely indestructible form it reaches a profundity in… — Thomas Hardy 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
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
You've traveled up ten thousand steps in search of the truth. So many days in the archives, copying, copying. The gravity of… — Hsu Yun Copy Share Image
