Best Depths Thoughts
681 Depths quotes by 522 unique authors
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The passion of Jesus is a sea of sorrows, but it is also an ocean of love. Ask the Lord to teach you to fish…
— Paul of the Cross
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If adventure has a final and all-embracing motive, it is surely this: we go out because it is our nature to go out, to climb…
— Wilfrid Noyce
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Why are the bones of great fishes, and oysters and corals and various other shells and sea-snails, found on the high tops of mountains that…
— Leonardo da Vinci
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It is only in the depths of crisis and despair that the fear of losing one's personality breeds millennial hopes of rescue: otherwise, complacency prevails.
— Stanley Hoffmann
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As soon as we put something into words, we devalue it in a strange way. We think we have plunged into the depths of the…
— Maurice Maeterlinck
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The completeness of this transformation appalled me. It was unlike anything I had imagined. I became two men, the serving one, and the one who…
— John Howard Griffin
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World peace is not something that can be realized simply by politicians signing treaties, or by business leaders creating economic cooperation. True and lasting peace…
— Daisaku Ikeda
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Sometimes we are clarified and calmed healthily, as we never were before in our lives, not by an opiate, but by some unconscious obedience to…
— Henry David Thoreau
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The symbols of the self arise in the depths of the body, and they express its materiality every bit as much as the perceiving consciousness.…
— Carl Jung
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The psychic depths are nature, and nature is creative life.
— Carl Jung
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I can only gaze with wonder and awe at the depths of and heights of our psychic nature. Its non-spatial universe conceals an untold abundance…
— Carl Jung
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Villages and woods, meadows and chateaux, pass across the moving scene, out of which the whistling of locomotives throws sharp notes. These faint, piercing sounds,…
— Alberto Santos-Dumont
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No, we don't accomplish our love in a single year as the flowers do; an immemorial sap flows up through our arms when we love.…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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It was not that the jagged precipices were lofty, that the encircling woods were the dimmest shade, or that the waters were profoundly deep; but…
— Thomas Cole
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In fall-orbed glory, yonder moon Divine Rolls through the dark-blue depths.
— Robert Southey
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Twenty-four hours a day one looks for contentment in eight different directions but one must also explore the ninth place, which is to their own…
— Guru Angad
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Every man who has reached even his intellectual teens begins to suspect that life is no farce; that it is not genteel comedy even; that…
— Unknown Author
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He will see himself and life and the world as truly as our human limitations will permit; realizing the brevity and minuteness of human life,…
— Bertrand Russell
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Does the human intellect, or "reason," really spring us free from our inherence in the depths of this wild proliferation of forms? Or on the…
— David Abram
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You men of the einsatzgruppen are called upon to fulfill a repulsive duty. But you are soldiers who have to carry out every order unconditionally.…
— Heinrich Himmler
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If you expect the worst from a person, you can't ever be disappointed... The pessimist takes a sort of gloomy pleasure in observing the depths…
— Anthony Burgess
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A sensation, hidden in the depths of my emotional memory, was suddenly revived: what if... What if for me The Variation is not dead? If…
— Lev Polugaevsky
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Might we not say to the confused voices which sometimes arise from the depths of our being: "Ladies, be so kind as to speak only…
— Sophie Swetchine
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Six months ago I had never been to England, and, certainly, I had never sounded the depths of an English heart. I had known the…
— Ford Madox Ford
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Self-knowledge is not the knowledge of a dead self, self-knowledge is the knowledge of the process of the self. It is an alive phenomenon. The…
— Rajneesh
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