Quotes About Depth

Experience has repeatedly confirmed that well-known maxim of Bacon's that "a little philosophy inclineth a man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion." At the same time, when Bacon penned that sage epigram... he forgot to add that the God to whom depth in philosophy brings back men's minds is far from being the same from whom a little philosophy estranges them.

Nothing can so pierce the soul as the uttermost sigh of the body.

When we feel the poetic thrill, is it not that we find sweep in the concise and depth in the clear, as we might find all the lights of the sea in the water of a jewel? And what is a philosophic thought but such an epitome?

What you don't know by heart you haven't really loved deeply enough

There is more story in a minor character like Boba Fett than there is in all the clutter of various vampires in the Twilight franchise.

As a nation we have, over the past seven years, been rebuilding our intelligence with powerful capabilities that many thought we would no longer need after the Cold War. We have been rebuilding our clandestine service, our satellite and other technical collection, our analytical depth and expertise.

No one ever discovers the depths of his own loneliness.

Je crois, je suis sûr que beaucoup d'hommes n'engagent jamais leur être, leur sincérité profonde. Ils vivent à la surface d'eux-mêmes, et le sol humain est si riche que cette mince couche superficielle suffit pour une maigre moisson, qui donne l'illusion d'une véritable destinée.

I believe, in fact I am certain, that many men never give out the whole of themselves, their deepest truth. They live on the surface, and yet, so rich is the soil of humanity that even this thin outer layer is able to yield a kind of meager harvest which gives the illusion of real living.

I would like to carve my novel in a piece of wood. My characters—I would like to have them heavier, more three-dimensional ... My characters have a profession, have characteristics; you know their age, their family situation, and everything. But I try to make each one of those characters heavy, like a statue, and to be the brother of everybody in the world.

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But the Bible is anything but superficial. The Bible is not an easy read, and nature is not a simple study.

Great thoughts always come from the heart.

Law is a bottomless pit.

Laughing deeply is living deeply.

Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once.

I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?

Every man is a volume, if you know how to read them.

Music touches places beyond our touching.

Soprano, basso, even the contralto Wished him five fathom under the Rialto.

Mystery is not profoundness.

The eyes are the window of the soul.

The eyes indicate the antiquity of the soul.

What the orators want in depth, they give you in length.