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Quotes About Profoundest

These talks with the "Other" [No. 2 personality] were my profoundest experiences: on the one hand a bloody struggle, on the other supreme ecstasy.
~ David H. Rosen
The profoundest facts in the earth's history prove that the oceans have always been oceans.
~ James Dwight Dana
The workings of the human heart are the profoundest mystery of the universe. One moment they make us despair of our kind, and the next we see in them the reflection of the divine image.
~ Charles W. Chesnutt
The profoundest points of New Testament Christology occur when the inclusion of the exalted Christ in the divine identity entails the inclusion of the crucified Christ in the divine identity, and when the christological pattern of humiliation and exaltation is recognized as revelatory of God, indeed as the definitive revelation of who God is.
~ Richard Bauckham
Those who love everything, as those who love a city, in its profoundest sense, become the shame of that city, the detraques, the paupers; their good is incommunicable, outwitted, being the rudiment of a life that has developed, as in man's body are found evidences of lost needs.
~ Djuna Barnes
A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, of the manifestations of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty - it is this knowledge and this emotion that constitute the truly religious attitude; in this sense, and in this alone, I am a deeply religious man.
~ Albert Einstein
Reverence for life, veneratio vitæ, is the most direct and at the same time the profoundest achievement of my will-to-live.
~ Albert Schweitzer
Hell is the bloodcurdling mansion of time, in whose profoundest circle Satan himself waits, winding a gargantuan watch in his hand.
~ Antonio Machado
The basis of all true cosmic horror is violation of the order of nature, and the profoundest violations are always the least concrete and describable.
~ H.P. Lovecraft
Infernal world! And thou, profoundest Hell, Receive thy new possessor-one who brings A mind not to be changed by place or time. The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.
~ Ben Bova
The workings of the human heart are the profoundest mystery of the universe. One moment they make us despair of our kind, and the next we see in them the reflection of the divine image.
~ Charles W. Chesnutt
It shook Therese in the profoundest part of her where no words were, no easy words like death or dying or killing Those words were somehow future, and this was present. An inarticulate anxiety, a desire to know, know anything for certain, had jammed itself in her throat for a moment she felt she could hardly breathe.
~ Patricia Highsmith
To hell, allegiance! Vows, to the blackest devil! Conscience and grace, to the profoundest pit! I dare damnation
~ William Shakespeare
The profoundest of all infidelities is the fear that the truth will be bad.
~ Herbert Spencer
The sun moved, came on me, made me erotic. Sometimes to return is a vulgarity. The profoundest distances are never geographical.
~ John Fowles
Infernal world, and thou profoundest Hell Receive thy new Possessor: One who brings A mind not to be chang'd by Place or Time. The mind is its own place, and in it self Can make a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n.
~ John Milton
Infernal world! And thou, profoundest hell, Receive thy new possessor - one who brings A mind not to be changed by place or time. The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a heaven of hell, and a hell of heaven.
~ John Milton