Top 92 Profundity Quotes & Sayings
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Last updated on November 20, 2024.
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.
It is a safe rule to apply that, when a mathematical or philosophical author writes with a misty profundity, he is talking nonsense.
Symbolism exists to adorn and enrich, not to create an artificial sense of profundity.
The world have payed too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them men of much greater profundity than they really are.
All that is necessary to raise imbecility into what the mob regards as profundity is to lift it off the floor and put it on a platform.
You can't learn pathos or profundity.
When I talk of reality, I am always thinking of essentials. Profundity is not located in some remote, inaccessible region. It is rooted in everyday life.
It is scarcely a mark of intellectual profundity to have noticed that our society is big.
In certain almost supernatural states of the soul, the profundity of life reveals itself entirely in the spectacle, however ordinary it may be, before one's eyes. It becomes its symbol.
With its claims to profundity, boldness and originality, thinking still limits itself provisionally to the exclusively rational and scientific. ... As soon as it lays hold of the feelings, it becomes spirit.
Philosophy is a corrective against sadness. Yet there still are people who believe in the profundity of philosophy!
If you study life deeply, its profundity will seize you suddenly with dizziness.
This is a large part of the academic profession: to make up complex, subtle arguments that are childishly ridiculous but are enveloped in sufficient profundity that they take on a kind of plausibility.
Power is no more than a part, no more than the tip of the iceberg of limitless profundity and sublimate of Karate.
Humor and profundity are not mutually exclusive, and life can be, and mostly is, serious and funny simultaneously. It's not always easy to capture that in words, but when T.M. Shine manages to do so, it's a sign of a master at work.
I think there's as much profundity and wisdom in Shakespeare, more so in fact, than those in the Bible.
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.
What makes philosophy so tedious is not the profundity of philosophers, but their lack of art; they are like physicians who soughtto cure a slight hyperacidity by prescribing a carload of burned oyster-shells.
By undue profundity we perplex and enfeeble thought; and it is possible to make even Venus herself vanish from the firmament by a scrutiny too sustained, too concentrated, or too direct.
Profundity often goes past the issue to some deep but useless truth.
Profundity easily turns into dullness and astuteness deteriorates into wit. Be guided by natural common sense and it will accommodate great and small.
Cobain the writer is funny and self-aware and snotty with a knack for off-the-cuff profundity. Remarking to a friend that his band will be called 'Nirvana,' he scribbles next to it the words 'Oooh eerie mystical doom.'
Individuals have to find a place to experience a profundity of feeling, and art is a means to that.
Comedy is hostile to profundity, and brings everything to the surface.
At first there is nothing, then there is a profound nothingness, after that a blue profundity.
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.
Now, in reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them to be men of much greater profundity then they really are.
If we are to achieve freedom, we must do so with a daring and a profundity that refuse to flinch at engaging our destiny.
The immense profundity of thought in vulgar locutions, like holes dug by generations of ants.
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 it in the refuse for the bards and the poets to find, and mangle into yodeling paeans of love.
I'm interested in the things that might seem slight or amusing but which I feel have a kind of profundity.
Commitment to a set of rules frees your play to attain a profundity and vigor otherwise impossible.
Black and white are absolute...expressing the most delicate vibration, the most profound tranquility, and unlimited profundity.
When I read the Upanishads, which are part of Vedanta, I found a profundity of worldview that made my Christianity seem like third grade.
You can't live your life in a state of profundity, because you're never going to get anything done, and you're just profound.
A man's profundity may keep him from opening on a first interview, and his caution on a second; but I should suspect his emptiness, if he carried on his reserve to a third.
Art is about profundity. It's about connecting to everything that it means to be alive, but you have to act.
I am not a serious person. I don't claim any profundity for any of my writing.
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.
Profundity of thought belongs to youth, clarity of thought to old age.
In peace there is profundity from which the highest respect arises from respect comes power and command therefore observe peace.
One of the most beautiful things that recruited me to join the LaRouche movement is its emphasis on Classical singing and composition, especially with the Negro Spirituals, adding a new depth of profundity to songs I had sang while growing up.
Jazz music celebrates life! Human life; the range of it, the absurdity of it, the ignorance of it, the greatness of it, the intelligence of it, the sexuality of it, the profundity of it. And it deals with it. In all of its... It deals with it!
There is profundity to explore, but also laundry to do.
Profundity and originality are attributes of single, if not singular, minds.
The amount of chiaroscuro an idea harbors is the only index of its profundity.
I know that my only chance at any kind of depth or profundity is to linger within the story, trying to make it distinguish itself.
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.
I guess I just always want to surprise myself and say something that I'm not really quite sure where it came from, and it sort of makes sense and has a kind of profundity to it. Sometimes it happens, sometimes it doesn't.
The spirit of poetry combines the profundity of the philosopher and the child's delight in bright pictures.
The struggle to write with profundity of emotion and at the same time to live like a millionaire so exhausted F. Scott Fitzgerald that he was at last brought down to the point where he could no longer be both a good writer and a decent person.
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.
Experience has taught me that the shallowest of communist platitudes contains more of a hierarchy of meaning than contemporary bourgeois profundity.
Few look for truth; many prowl about for a reputation of profundity by arrogantly challenging whichever arguments are the best.
A big silvery janitor. Penny, this can’t be how the universe works.” “In the Order we call it ‘inverse profundity.’ We’ve observed it in any number of cases. The deeper you go into the cosmic mysteries, the less interesting everything gets.
I believe that music offers us possibilities for analysis, at least in my case, more profound in many ways, but at the same time that profundity is an accessible profundity that has atemporal repercussions.
There are those whose sole claim to profundity is the discovery of exceptions to the rules.
We're all vanishing organisms and disappearing creatures in space and time - that death sentence in space in time that Kafka talked about with such profundity.
The qualities of a great man are vision, integrity, courage, understanding, the power of articulation, and profundity of character.
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 of itself is painful.
