Profoundest Quotes

61 quotes by 49 authors

It is great good health to believe as the Hindus do that there are 33 million gods and goddesses in the world. It is great… — Clive Barker
The profoundest of all sensualities is the sense of truth and the next deepest sensual experience is the sense of justice. — D. H. Lawrence
He knew very well that love could be like the most beautiful singing, that it could make death inconsequential, that it existed in forms so… — Mark Helprin
Eating with the fullest pleasure - pleasure, that is, that does not depend on ignorance - is perhaps the profoundest enactment of our connection with… — Wendell Berry
So here I am, my affections torn between a postal service that never feeds me but can tackle a challenge and one that gives me… — Bill Bryson
Poetry begins in trivial metaphors, pretty metaphors, "grace" metaphors, and goes on to the profoundest thinking that we have. Poetry provides the one permissible way… — Robert Frost
The basis of all true cosmic horror is violation of the order of nature, and the profoundest violations are always the least concrete and describable. — H P Lovecraft
The profoundest distances are never geographical. — John Fowles
Pilate's skeptical sneer "What is truth?" was addressed to Truth Himself, standing there right in front of his face. The world's stupidest question was three… — Peter Kreeft
A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, of the manifestations of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty - it is… — Albert Einstein
Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone, and the only one who seeks… — Octavio Paz
But Chinese civilization has the overpowering beauty of the wholly other, and only the wholly other can inspire the deepest love and the profoundest desire… — Joseph Needham
The profoundest affinities are the most readily felt; they remain a background and standard for all happiness and if we trace them out we succeed. — George Santayana
I have the profoundest respect for people who behave in a generous way because of religion. But I come from a country where the misuse… — Amin Maalouf
The style of the Bible in general is singularly adapted to men of every class and grade of culture, affording the child the simple nourishment… — Philip Schaff
The profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader. The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I'm also a great believer in the dream life; that while we're asleep, a deep subconscious connection is made about our profoundest fears, hopes, loves,… — Andrew Motion
Love is the profoundest of secrets. Divulged, even to the beloved, it is no longer Love. As if it were merely I that loved you.… — Henry David Thoreau

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