Profundity Quotes
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There are those whose sole claim to profundity is the discovery of exceptions to the rules.
— Paul Eldridge
The spirit of poetry combines the profundity of the philosopher and the child's delight in bright pictures.
— Franz Grillparzer
You and those shot-glass eyes, deep swirling pools of 80-proof firewater, with the depth and profundity of Saturn's spinning pulsars ...
— Brandi L. Bates
With great profundity I note the pleasure one gets or takes in pushing wheeled objects, as opposed to the depression involved in pulling them.
— Michael Cisco
Few look for truth; many prowl about for a reputation of profundity by arrogantly challenging whichever arguments are the best.
— Rene Descartes
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
The world have payed too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them men of much greater profundity than they really are.
— Henry Fielding
David Foster Wallace: There's so much beauty and profundity in all kinds of shitty pop culture all around us.
— David Lipsky
A thought, even a possibility, can shatter and transform us.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
He was elated by his own profundity. It was as if the gods had conspired that he be full of wisdom.
— Aporva Kala
But vain to popularize profundities, and all truth is profound.
— Herman Melville
Profundity easily turns into dullness and astuteness deteriorates into wit. Be guided by natural common sense and it will accommodate great and small.
— Franz Grillparzer
Commitment to a set of rules frees your play to attain a profundity and vigor otherwise impossible.
— Stephen Nachmanovitch
You can't learn pathos or profundity.
— Nigel Kennedy
A learned woman might just as well have a beard, for that expresses in a more recognizable form the profundity for which she strives.
— Immanuel Kant
Symbolism exists to adorn and enrich, not to create an artificial sense of profundity.
— Stephen King
In peace there is profundity from which the highest respect arises from respect comes power and command therefore observe peace.
— Akkineni Nagarjuna
Chasms are deceived by rumors of their depth.
— Marty Rubin
Philosophy is a corrective against sadness. Yet there still are people who believe in the profundity of philosophy!
— Emil Cioran
I think there's as much profundity and wisdom in Shakespeare, more so in fact, than those in the Bible.
— Steve Coogan
There is profundity to explore, but also laundry to do.
— Bruce Feiler
Every day, before our eyes, a moral phenomenon of amazing profundity takes place which is, nevertheless, so simple as never to be noticed.
— Honore De Balzac
Black and white are absolute ... expressing the most delicate vibration, the most profound tranquility, and unlimited profundity.
— Shiko Munakata
Art is about profundity. It's about connecting to everything that it means to be alive, but you have to act.
— Jeff Koons
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.
— George Jean Nathan
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.
— Timothy Spall
Profundity of thought belongs to youth, clarity of thought to old age.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
If you study life deeply, its profundity will seize you suddenly with dizziness.
— Albert Schweitzer
At first there is nothing, then there is a profound nothingness, after that a blue profundity.
— Yves Klein
The immense profundity of thought in vulgar locutions, like holes dug by generations of ants.
— Charles Baudelaire
When I came to the West and heard about knights slaying dragons, I was shocked. In Tibet, the dragon symbolizes incomprehensible profundity.
— Sakyong Mipham
