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Tag Name "Profundity" (51)

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Black and white are absolute...expressing the most delicate vibration, the most profound tranquility, and unlimited profundity.
Shiko Munakata
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The amount of chiaroscuro an idea harbors is the only index of its profundity.
Emile M. Cioran
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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
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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, why didn't I do that long ago, why has it taken me so long to understand what it means when the Indians honour the insane, step aside for them? Yes, a lunatic asylum--don't you think I may end up there?
Soren Kierkegaard
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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.
David Shrigley
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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
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Profundity and originality are attributes of single, if not singular, minds.
Edwin Land
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There are those whose sole claim to profundity is the discovery of exceptions to the rules.
Paul Eldridge
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I am afraid that old women are more skeptical in their most secret heart of hearts than any man: they believe in the superficiality of existence as in its essence, and all virtue and profundity is to them merely a veil over this truth, a most welcome veil over a pudendum--and so a matter of decency and modesty, and nothing else.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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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.
Kelley Armstrong
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Power is no more than a part, no more than the tip of the iceberg of limitless profundity and sublimate of Karate.
Mas Oyama
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Symbolism exists to adorn and enrich, not to create an artificial sense of profundity.
Stephen King
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Sometimes I try my hand at turning out small profundities and uncertain short stories, but I always end up with just one single word: God.
Etty Hillesum
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Whoever knows he is deep tries to be clear, but whoever wants to seem deep to the crowd tries to be obscure. For the crowd supposes that anything it cannot see to the bottom must be deep: it is so timid and goes so unwillingly into the water.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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At first there is nothing, then there is a profound nothingness, after that a blue profundity.
Yves Klein
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The immense profundity of thought in vulgar locutions, like holes dug by generations of ants.
Charles Baudelaire
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All truth is profound.
Herman Melville
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Kindness in thinking creates profundity. Kindness in giving creates love.
Laozi
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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 common, pursuit of knowledge, one conviction crowned her efforts: ...she knew there was nothing to fear.
Toni Morrison
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The real deep text of music and the whole reason that it has continued with the profundity and urgency that it has for over a thousand years, has to do with what the notes say, what the notes witness, different experiences of hope or doubt that people are able to distill and encode and pass on in this way.
Michael Tilson Thomas
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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
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Comedy is hostile to profundity, and brings everything to the surface.
Mason Cooley
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Above all you must illumine your own soul with its profundities and its shallows, and its vanities and its generosities, and say what your beauty means to you or your plainness, and what is your relation to the ever-changing and turning world.
Virginia Woolf
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Jargon is the verbal sleight of hand that makes the old hat seem newly fashionable it gives an air of novelty and specious profundity to ideas that, if stated directly, would seem superficial, stale, frivolous, or false. The line between serious and spurious scholarship is an easy one to blur, with jargon on your side.
David Lehman
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