Profound Quotes

1328 Profound quotes by 1008 unique authors

Monsters remain human beings. In fact, to reduce them to a subhuman level is to exonerate them of their acts of terrorism and mass murder… — Andrew Sullivan
But let there be no misunderstanding: it is not that a real man, the object of knowledge, philosophical reflection or technological intervention, has been substituted… — Michel Foucault
What can I expect from myself? My sensation in all their horrible acuity, and a profound awareness of feeling. A sharp mind that only destroys… — Fernando Pessoa
We must eschew anything trivial. We must embrace all that is frivolous.... Trivial things take up all your time and dull your senses, whereas frivolity… — Cynthia Heimel
What is truly profound is thought to be stupid and trivial, or worse, boring, while what is actually stupid and trivial is thought to be… — Dallas Willard
Whatever will happen will happen, but choose your companions with care. Choose them because you like to look at them and you like the sound… — Anne Rice
Nothing can be sadder or more profound than to see a thousand things for the first and last time. To journey is to be born… — Victor Hugo
The human mind delights in finding patternâ€”so much so that we often mistake coincidence or forced analogy for profound meaning. No other habit of thought… — Stephen Jay Gould
Now this is very profound, what rhythm is, and goes far deeper than words. A sight, an emotion, creates this wave in the mind, long… — Virginia Woolf
Like fanning through a deck of cards, my mind flashes on the thousand chances, trivial to profound, that converged to re-create this place. Any arbitrary… — Frances Mayes
In their choice of lovers both the male and the female reveal their essential nature. The type of human being we prefer reveals the contours… — Jose Ortega y Gasset
There has always been, and there is now, a profound conflict of interest between the people and the government of the United States. — Howard Zinn
Style is a very simple matter; it is all rhythm. Once you get that, you can't use the wrong words. But on the other hand… — Virginia Woolf
Reading is human contact, and the range of our human contacts is what makes us what we are. Just imagine you live the life of… — Victor Pelevin
...thinking as he had thought before and would think again and as every other man has thought: how false the most profound book turns out… — William Faulkner
I am alone in the world, and yet not alone enough to make each hour holy. I am lowly in this world, and yet not… — Maggie Stiefvater
Then let me put it to you this way. There is seldom black and white in our world. Sometimes things we perceive as good have… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
I have a deep and profound mistrust of all politicians. — Craig Ferguson
I often went to Catholic mass or Eucharist at the Episcopal church, nourished by the symbol and power of this profound feeding ritual. It never… — Sue Monk Kidd
Read from a distant star, the majuscule script of our earthly existence would perhaps lead to the conclusion that the earth was the distinctively ascetic… — Friedrich Nietzsche

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