Profound Quotes

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There are two men in Tolstoy. He is a mystic and he is also a realist. He is addicted to the practice of a pietism… — William Ernest Henley
We often have need of a profound philosophy to restore to our feelings their original state of innocence, to find our way out of the… — Georg C. Lichtenberg
All through my boyhood I had a profound conviction that I was no good, that I was wasting my time, wrecking my talents, behaving with… — George Orwell
Philosophy, astronomy, and politics were marked at zero, I remember. Botany variable, geology profound as regards the mud stains from any region within fifty miles… — Arthur Conan Doyle
It is a difficult matter for man to realize the extreme importance of social discriminations which seem outwardly insignificant but which produce in woman moral… — Simone de Beauvoir
Clear writers, like fountains, do not seem so deep as they are; the turbid look the most profound. — Walter Savage Landor
Beneath everything else, North and West, there ran a profound, unvoiced, almost subconscious conviction that the [American] nation was going to go on growing-in size,… — Bruce Catton
Most creatures have a vague belief that a very precarious hazard, a kind of transparent membrane, divides death from love; and that the profound idea… — Maurice Maeterlinck
There are two kinds of liberalism. A liberalism which is always, subterraneously authoritative and paternalistic, on the side of one's good conscience. And then there… — Roland Barthes
There is a profound and ineradicable taint of antisemitism in the British. — David Mamet
Surrealism will usher you into death, which is a secret society. It will glove your hand, burying therein the profound M with which the word… — Andre Breton
Sex cannot be contained within a definition of physical pleasure, it cannot be understood as merely itself for it has stood for too long as… — Elizabeth Janeway
One of the proud joys of the man of letters --if that man of letters is an artist is to feel within himself the power… — Edmond de Goncourt
I've spent the last 50 years or so steeping myself in the world's religions, and I've done my homework. I've gone to each of the… — Huston Smith
Art and science create a balance to material life and enlarge the world of living experience. Art leads to a more profound concept of life,… — Hans Hofmann
A man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man. The instructed man is ashamed to pronounce in an orphic manner… — Van Wyck Brooks
It is not that the French are not profound, but they all express themselves so well that we are led to take their geese for… — Van Wyck Brooks
Caught between the longing for love, and the struggle for the legal tender, where the sirens sing and the church bells ring, and the junk… — Jackson Browne
Every day, a little sadder, a little madder. Will someone get me a ladder? — Ralph Waldo Emerson
God knows there's a heaven. — Bob Dylan
I am, I said to no one there and no one heard at all, not even a chair. — Neil Diamond
I don't believe virginity is common as it used to be. — Don Williams
I just wanna live until I die. — Clay Walker
I was so young when I was born. — George Harrison
If I ever loose my eyes, I won't have to cry no more. — Cat Stevens

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