Any Quote by Cynthia Ozick

Where I am not understood, it shall be concluded that something very useful and profound is couched underneath.

— Jonathan Swift

But since I've taught that bodies of matter, made Completely solid, hither and thither fly Forevermore unconquered through all time, Now come, and whether…

— Lucretius

There are greater depths and obscurities, greater intricacies and perplexities, in an elaborate and well-written piece of nonsense, than in the most abstruse and…

— Joseph Addison

“In other words there is something otherworldly about our existence here --something more than matter, more than the body and mind we have been…

— Guy Murchie

Many a trivial novel has been written about an important subject, and many a profound one about nothing in particular.

— Howard Jacobson

Where there is matter, there is geometry.

— Johannes Kepler

“When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion. Every sentence is…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“There are no "great" subjects for the creative writer; there are only the singular details of a single human life.”

— Richard Selzer

“The infinate universe can be reached through the spine of a small book.”

— Andrew Hotchkiss

“That which is profound never lends itself to logical explanation: it involves endless mystery.”

— Soetsu Yanagi

“To be bound in a nutshell, see the world in two inches of ivory, in a grain of sand. Why not, when all of…

— Ian McEwan

“Let us then realize our limitations. We are something and we are not everything. Such being as we have conceals from us the knowledge…

— Blaise Pascal