Profundity Quotes

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You're working on being a father, so that is something that when you experience it you'll understand the profundity of wanting to protect something dear… — Harvey Keitel
Few look for truth; many prowl about for a reputation of profundity by arrogantly challenging whichever arguments are the best. — Rene Descartes
If you practice in accord with your individual capacity, little by little you will find more pleasure and joy in it. As you gain inner… — Dalai Lama
Every page must explode, whether through seriousness, profundity, turbulence, nausea, the new, the eternal, annihilating nonsense, enthusiasm for principles, or the way it is printed. — Francis Picabia
Commitment to a set of rules frees your play to attain a profundity and vigor otherwise impossible. — Stephen Nachmanovitch
Complexity and profundity have been equated by the academic culture just as fame and significance have been conflated by the popular culture. Fame and significance… — Dennis Prager
The amount of chiaroscuro an idea harbors is the only index of its profundity. — Emile M. Cioran
With its claims to profundity, boldness and originality, thinking still limits itself provisionally to the exclusively rational and scientific. ... As soon as it lays… — Robert Musil
Art is about profundity. It's about connecting to everything that it means to be alive, but you have to act. — Jeff Koons
When I read the Upanishads, which are part of Vedanta, I found a profundity of worldview that made my Christianity seem like third grade. — Huston Smith
Promise to give me a kiss on my brow when I am dead. --I shall feel it." She dropped her head again on Marius' knees,… — Victor Hugo
No, I won't leave the world--I'll enter a lunatic asylum and see if the profundity of insanity reveals to me the riddles of life. Idiot,… — Soren Kierkegaard
Sometimes humans hit on a moment of profundity more complete than their dim minds could comprehend, and they took that nugget of truth and dumped… — Kelley Armstrong
Her mind traveled crooked streets and aimless goat paths, arriving sometimes at profundity, other times at the revelations of a three-year-old. Throughout this fresh, if… — Toni Morrison
The really important facts were that spatial relationships had ceased to matter very much and that my mind was perceiving the world in terms of… — Aldous Huxley
Of love it may be said, the less earthly the less demonstrative. In its absolutely indestructible form it reaches a profundity in which all exhibition… — Thomas Hardy
A big silvery janitor. Penny, this canâ€™t be how the universe works.â€ â€œIn the Order we call it â€˜inverse profundity.â€™ Weâ€™ve observed it in any… — Lev Grossman
Symbolism exists to adorn and enrich, not to create an artificial sense of profundity. — Stephen King
The qualities of a great man are vision, integrity, courage, understanding, the power of articulation, and profundity of character. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
Experience has taught me that the shallowest of communist platitudes contains more of a hierarchy of meaning than contemporary bourgeois profundity. — Walter Benjamin

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