Quotes About Profound

I would believe only in a god who could dance. And when I saw my devil I found him serious, thorough, profound, and solemn: it was the spirit of gravity - through him all things fall.

whatever is profound loves masks; what is most profound even hates image and parable.

That which intoxicates, the sensually ecstatic, the sudden surprise, the urge to be profoundly stirred at any price -- dreadful tendencies!

Only great pain is the ultimate liberator of the spirit….I doubt that such pain makes us 'better'; but I know that it makes us more profound.

Îmi cunosc soarta. Cândva se va lega de numele meu amintirea a ceva monstruos – a unei crize cum nu a mai existat pe p?mânt, a celei mai profunde ciocniri de conÅŸtiinÅ£e, a unei decizii conjurate împotriva a tot ceea ce se crezuse, se ceruse, se considerase sfânt pân? atunci. Eu nu sunt om, eu sunt dinamit?.

It is only great pain--that slow, sustained pain that takes its time, in which we are, as it were, burned with smoldering green firewood--that forces us philosophers to sink to our ultimate profundity and to do away with all the trust, everything good-natured, veil-imposing, mild and middling, on which we may have previously based our humanity. I doubt that such a pain makes us 'better'--but I know that it makes us deeper.

One! O man! Take heed! Two! What says deep midnight's voice indeed? Three! I slept my sleep- Four! From deepest dream I've woke and plead:- Five! The world is deep, Six! And deeper than the day could read. Seven! Deep is its woe- Eight! Joy- deeper still than grief can be: Nine! Woe says: Hence! Go! Ten! But joys all want eternity- Eleven! Want deep profound eternity! Twelve!

Those who know that they are profound strive for clarity. Those who would like to seem profound to the crowd strive for obscurity.

It seems that in order to inscribe themselves upon the heart of humanity with everlasting claims, all great things have first to wander about the earth as enormous and awe-inspiring caricatures:

who knows that he is profound strives for clearness; he who would like to appear profound to the multitude strives for obscurity.

In the end it must be as it is and always has been: great things remain for the great, abysses for the profound, nuances and shudders for the refined, and, in brief, all that is rare for the rare.

When your sight has become good enough to see the bottom of the dark well of your being and knowing, you may also see in its mirror the distant constellations of future cultures.

Men of profound thought appear to themselves in intercourse with others like comedians, for in order to be understood they must always simulate superficiality.

Joys want the eternity of all things, they want deep, profound eternity!

I shall say another word for the most select ears: what I really want from music. That it be cheerful and profound like an afternoon in October. That it be individual, frolicsome, tender, a sweet small woman full of beastliness and charm. I

But when Zarathustra was alone, he addressed his heart thus: "Can it really be possible? This old holy man in his forest still hasn't received any notice that God is dead!

Could it be possible! This old saint in the forest hath not yet heard of it, that GOD IS DEAD!

El corazón tiene mas cuartos que hotel de putas

If you want to learn about America, watch 'The Wire.' It's a profound piece of entertainment.

I'm not a new-agey person, but narrative is ancient and wise and generous.

Like all social theories, internationalism must seek its basis in the economic and technical fields; here are to be found the most profound and the most decisive factors in the development of society.

I like big doses of grief when I read: Richard Yates, Flannery O'Connor, Kenzabaro Oe, Thomas Bernhard.

For a successful revolution it is not enough that there is discontent. What is required is a profound and thorough conviction of the justice, necessity and importance of political and social rights.

You must know that Iran has a great number of productions. Many films are released. Most of them, like in the rest of the world, are commercial and shallow films. These are the most popular ones. And there are a few ones that actually develop more profound and thoughtful aspects of life. Only some of these films travel out of Iran.