Quotes About Depth

Penetrate the heart of just one drop of water, and you will be flooded by a hundred oceans. Mahmûd Shabistarî

Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business.

Yes, only a fool would have slipped into her deepest reaches and grasped the woman within. The whole of her so fine and glorious, he had reverently fondled each nuance of her mind.

Der Wille Gottes kann sehr tief verborgen liegen unter vielen sich anbietenden Möglichkeiten.

Klug ist, wer die Wirklichkeit sieht, wie sie ist, wer auf den Grund der Dinge sieht. Klug ist allein, wer die Wirklichkeit in Gott sieht.

little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.

A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.

Down here everything is symbol and mystery.

Seja como for, a ausência de ruído é o melhor sinal da proximidade de um abismo.

Not only does one not retain all at once the truly rare works, but even within such works it is the least precious parts that one perceives first. Less deceptive than life, these great masterpieces do not give us their best at the beginning.

one might almost say that works of literature are like artesian wells, the deeper the suffering, the higher they rise.)

a writer's works, like the water in an artesian well, mount to a height which is in proportion to the depth to which suffering has penetrated his soul.

I felt that I was not penetrating to the full depth of my impression, that something more lay behind that mobility, that luminosity, something which they seemed at once to contain and to conceal.

How much farther does anguish penetrate in psychology than psychology itself!

And we shall love it longer than the rest because we have taken longer to get to love it. The time, moreover, that a person requires—as I required in the matter of this sonata—to penetrate a work of any depth is merely an epitome, a symbol, one might say, of the years, the centuries even that must elapse before the public can begin to cherish a masterpiece that is really new.

When we are in love, our love is too big a thing for us to be able altogether to contain it within ourselves.

And yet one did not find in the speech of Bergotte a certain luminosity which in his books, as in those of some other writers, often modified in the written phrase the appearance of its words. This was doubtless because that light issues from so profound a depth that its rays do not penetrate to our spoken words in the hours in which, thrown open to others by the act of conversation, we are to a certain extent closed against ourselves.

The reality that must be expressed resides, I now realised, not in the appearance of the subject but in the degree of penetration of that intuition to a depth where that appearance matters little, as symbolised by the sound of the spoon upon the plate, the stiffness of the table-napkin, which were more precious for my spiritual renewal than many humanitarian, patriotic, international conversations. More style, I had heard said in those days, more literature of life.

Each of us carries a unique world within our hearts.

We put terrible pressure on our minds. When we tighten them or harden our views or beliefs, we lose all the softness and flexibility that makes for real shelter, belonging, and protection. Sometimes the best way of caring for your soul is to make flexible again some of the views that harden and crystalize your mind; for these alienate you from your own depth and beauty.

Imagination is the most reverent mirror of the soul.

Television and the computer world are great empty shadow-lands. To look at something that can gaze back at you, or that has a reserve and depth, can heal your eyes and deepen your sense of vision.

In the divine Scriptures, there are shallows and there are deeps; shallows where the lamb may wade, and deeps where the elephant may swim.

To study one good master till you understand him will teach you more than a superficial acquaintance with a thousand: power of criticism does not consist in knowing the names or the manner of many painters, but in discerning the excellence of a few.