Profundity Quotes

• Kindness in thinking creates profundity. Kindness in giving creates love.

  Laozi

  Kindness, Thinking, Giving

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• All truth is profound.

  Herman Melville

  Truth, Profound, Truth Is

  Herman Melville (2016). “Moby-Dick: Or, the Whale”, p.172, Cosimo, Inc.

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• You've traveled up ten thousand steps in search of the truth. So many days in the archives, copying, copying. The gravity of the Tang and the profundity of the Sung make heavy baggage. Here! I've picked you a bunch of wild flowers. Their meaning is the same but they're much easier to carry.

  Hsu Yun

  Spiritual, Flower, Copying

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• Profundity often goes past the issue to some deep but useless truth.

  Mason Cooley

  Truth, Past, Issues

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• When a man’s heart is right with God the mysterious utterances of the Bible are spirit and life to him. Spiritual truth is discernible only to a pure heart, not to a keen intellect. It is not a question of profundity of intellect, but of purity of heart.

  Oswald Chambers

  Spiritual, Heart, Men

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.30, Discovery House

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• The qualities of a great man are vision, integrity, courage, understanding, the power of articulation, and profundity of character.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Integrity, Character, Men

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• Profundity of thought belongs to youth, clarity of thought to old age.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Science, Thinking, Ideas

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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• If you study life deeply, its profundity will seize you suddenly with dizziness.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Life, Study, Ifs

  Albert Schweitzer (2005). “Albert Schweitzer: Essential Writings”

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• Art is about profundity. It's about connecting to everything that it means to be alive, but you have to act.

  Jeff Koons

  Art, Mean, Alive

  "Jeff Koons on drawing as a means of articulating an idea". Interview with Dale Berning, www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2009.

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• It is a safe rule to apply that, when a mathematical or philosophical author writes with a misty profundity, he is talking nonsense.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Philosophical, Writing, Talking

  1911 Introduction to Mathematics.

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• 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, and her eyelids closed. He thought the poor soul had departed. Eponine remained motionless. All at once, at the very moment when Marius fancied her asleep forever, she slowly opened her eyes in which appeared the sombre profundity of death, and said to him in a tone whose sweetness seemed already to proceed from another world:-- "And by the way, Monsieur Marius, I believe that I was a little bit in love with you.

  Victor Hugo

  Goodbye, Believe, Love You

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• One’s visual language is not something that manifests overnight. It develops organically over a life-time. The shifts can be so subtle as to be virtually imperceptible and, at times, will come to fruition so rapidly, and with such force, that the profundity is all-consuming. That is life’s work.

  Dan Winters

  Fruition, Language, Subtle

  Dan Winters (2014). “Road to Seeing”, p.176, New Riders

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• Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.

  Mao Zedong

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• 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 have nothing to do with one another; and complexity and profundity have nothing to do with one another.

  Dennis Prager

  Culture, Academic, Fame

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• There are those whose sole claim to profundity is the discovery of exceptions to the rules.

  Paul Eldridge

  Discovery, Claims, Sole

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• Now in reality, the world has paid too great a compliment to critics, and has imagined them to be men of much greater profundity than they really are.

  Henry Fielding

  Reality, Men, Criticism

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• So-called professional mathematicians have, in their reliance on the relative incapacity of the rest of mankind, acquired for themselves a reputation for profundity very similar to the reputation for sanctity possessed by theologians.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Math, Reputation, Sanctity

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook K 52, 1799.

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• Relaxing with something as familiar as loneliness is good discipline for realizing the profundity of the unresolved moments of our lives. We are cheating ourselves when we run away from the ambiguity of loneliness.....Rather than persecuting yourself or feeling that something terribly wrong is happening, right there in the moment of sadness and longing, could you relax and touch the limitless space of the human heart?

  Pema Chodron

  Running, Cheating, Loneliness

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• I studied architecture in New York. So, really I was very moved, like everyone else, to try to contribute something that has that resonance and profundity of it means to all of us.

  Daniel Libeskind

  New York, Mean, Trying

  "CNN Saturday" with Carol Lin, www.cnn.com. February 8, 2003.

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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 to you.

  Harvey Keitel

  Father, Protect, Dear

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• Symbolism exists to adorn and enrich, not to create an artificial sense of profundity.

  Stephen King

  Symbolism, Artificial

  "22 lessons from Stephen King on how to be a great writer". www.businessinsider.com. September 16, 2016.

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• Experience has taught me that the shallowest of communist platitudes contains more of a hierarchy of meaning than contemporary bourgeois profundity.

  Walter Benjamin

  Hierarchy, Taught, Communism

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• You can't learn pathos or profundity.

  Nigel Kennedy

  Pathos

  "Nigel Kennedy accuses fellow violinists of destroying Bach's legacy" by Dalya Alberge, www.theguardian.com. August 13, 2011.

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• Promise to give me a kiss on my brow when I am dead.--I shall feel it.

  Victor Hugo

  Goodbye, Kissing, Giving

  Victor Hugo (2015). “Les Misérables”, p.1031, First Avenue Editions

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• 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

  Christianity, Made, Found

  "The World of Religion According to Huston Smith". Interview with Marilyn Berlin Snell, www.motherjones.com. November, 1997.

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