Quotes About Profound

I love New York City in the fall, and one of my favorite events of the season is the annual World of Children Award Gala, at which I have the profound pleasure of meeting the newest class of changemakers for children who are there to receive their World of Children Award.

One might say that the novel is the genre that most predisposes one to a profound insight into the tremendous life around us, instead of putting forward one's own tiny ego as the centre of the universe.

There is this tremendous body of knowledge in the world of academia where extraordinary numbers of incredibly thoughtful people have taken the time to examine on a really profound level the way we live our lives and who we are and where we've been. That brilliant learning sometimes gets trapped in academia and never sees the light of day.

I think that, in almost all human beings, there is buried a profound tribal instinct that makes us very susceptible to being aroused to patriotic fervour.

The trouble with paternalists is that they want to make impossibly profound changes, and they choose impossibly superficial means for doing so.

He returned to the empty space above the pharmacy and continued his practice of the "empty hand", kara-te, whose root is the same as kara-oke, "empty orchestra", the sing-along entertainment machine in bars and homes, but whose meaning is infinitely more profound.

And then I saw him and nothing was ever the same again. The sky was never the same colour, the moon never the same shape: the air never smelt the same, food never tasted the same. Every word I knew changed its meaning, everything that once was stable and firm became as insubstantial as a puff of wind, and every puff of wind became a solid thing I could feel and touch.

When the abyss gazes into you, bill it.

All this time, and the solution was as easy as asking for it. Wasn't that profound?

There are tides beneath every tide And the surface of water Holds no weight.

The fact is safe co-sleeping is not difficult. The notion of babies being smothered is simply not true. And the benefits of sleeping together are profound.

I'm interested in the things that might seem slight or amusing but which I feel have a kind of profundity.

Beethoven was always too much. He's not slightly anything - he's very everything.

Many reports are given of deep mystical experiences," he wrote, "but their chief characteristic is the wonder at one's own profundity.

But along with the feeling of ineffability, the conviction that some profound objective truth has been disclosed to you is a hallmark of the mystical experience, regardless of whether it has been occasioned by a drug, meditation, fasting, flagellation, or sensory deprivation.

Shakespeare esque!

Most of Aesop's fables have many different levels and meanings. There are those who make myths of them by choosing some feature that fits in well with the fable. But for most of the fables this is only the first and most superficial aspect. There are others that are more vital, more essential and profound, that they have not been able to reach.

only philosophy can go deep enough to show that literature goes still deeper than philosophy

Commenting on the importance of Maxwell's equations, Einstein wrote that they are the most profound and the most fruitful that physics has experienced since the time of Newton.

To laugh is to live profoundly.

Y es que las preguntas verdaderamente serias son aquellas que pueden ser formuladas hasta por un niño. Sólo las preguntas más ingenuas son verdaderamente serias. Son preguntas que no tienen respuesta. Una pregunta que no tiene respuesta es un barrera que no puede atravesarse. Dicho de otro modo: precisamente las preguntas que no tienen respuesta son las que determinan las posibilidades del ser humano, son las que trazan las fronteras de la existencia del hombre.

Perché le domande veramente serie sono solo quelle che possono essere formulate da un bambino. Solo le domande più ingenue sono veramente serie. Sono le domande per cui non esiste risposta. Una domanda per la quale non esiste risposta è una barriera oltre la quale non è possibile andare. In altri termini: sono proprio le domande per le quali non esiste risposta che segnano i limiti della possibilità umane e tracciano i confini dell'esistenza umana.

Além de eloquentes, esses sonhos eram belos. Esse é um aspecto que escapou a Freud na sua teoria dos sonhos. (...) O sonho é a prova que imaginar, sonhar com aquilo que não acontece, é uma das mais profundas necessidades do homem.

Y es que las preguntas verdaderamente serias son aquéllas que pueden ser formuladas hasta por un niño. Solo las preguntas más ingenuas son verdaderamente serias.