Profoundest Quotes

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It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that… — Christian Nestell Bovee
At the profoundest depths in life, men talk not about God but with Him. — D. Elton Trueblood
If you want to obtain the secrets of such wonderful techniques, drill yourself, harden yourself, undergo severe training, abandoned body and mind; follow this course… — Yamaoka Tesshu
The profoundest affinities are those most readily felt. — George Santayana
Accordingly, France Had Voltaire, and his school of negative thinkers, and England (or rather Scotland) had the profoundest negative thinker on record, David Hume: a… — John Stuart Mill
The profoundest thoughts of the philosophers have something trickle about them. A lot disappears in order for something to suddenly appear in the palm of… — Elias Canetti
The profoundest facts in the earth's history prove that the oceans have always been oceans. — James Dwight Dana
The profoundest order is revealed in what is most casual. — Fairfield Porter
I always know a lie when I hear it, and the effect it has on me is no good at all. I go berserk just… — William Saroyan
The workings of the human heart are the profoundest mystery of the universe. One moment they make us despair of our kind, and the next… — Charles W. Chesnutt
How can we know ourselves by ourselves? . . . Soul needs intimate connection, not only to individuate, but simply to live. For this we… — James Hillman
From the point of view of the Christian faith, man comes in the profoundest sense to himself not through what he does but through what… — Pope Benedict XVI
The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
One receives as reward for much ennui, despondency, boredom -such as a solitude without friends, books, duties, passions must bring with it -those quarter-hours of… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Hell is the bloodcurdling mansion of time, in whose profoundest circle Satan himself waits, winding a gargantuan watch in his hand. — Antonio Machado
The power of music to integrate and cure. . . is quite fundamental. It is the profoundest nonchemical medication. — Oliver Sacks
Art is the expression of the profoundest thoughts in the simplest way. — Albert Einstein
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… — Henry James, Sr.
If written in the three-letter words of the four-letter alphabet,a human being is determined by a genetic narrative long enough to fill the equivalent of… — Harry Mulisch
Philosophy exists in profoundest opposition to rhetoric, which is speaking for the sake of producing or controlling some effect in others' perceptions. Philosophy is about… — Kenny Smith

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