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  • When I read the Upanishads, which are part of Vedanta, I found a profundity of worldview that made my Christianity seem like third grade.

    "The World of Religion According to Huston Smith". Interview with Marilyn Berlin Snell, www.motherjones.com. November, 1997.
  • In one sense what may pass between the pope and myself may be trivialities. In another sense the fact of talking trivialities is itself a portent of great significance. But the pleasantries which we exchange may, as one church leader said, be pleasantries about profundities.

    Talking   Leader   Church  
  • Above all you must illumine your own soul with its profundities and its shallows, and its vanities and its generosities, and say what your beauty means to you or your plainness, and what is your relation to the ever-changing and turning world.

    Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.618, Wordsworth Editions
  • When all the archetypes burst out shamelessly, we plumb the depths of Homeric profundity. Two clichés make us laugh but a hundred clichés moves us because we sense dimly that the clichés are talking among themselves, celebrating a reunion. . . . Just as the extreme of pain meets sensual pleasure, and the extreme of perversion borders on mystical energy, so too the extreme of banality allows us to catch a glimpse of the Sublime.

    Laughter   Pain   Moving  
  • Men who think deeply appear to be comedians in their dealings with others because they always have to feign superficiality in order to be understood.

    Men   Thinking   Order  
  • No, I won't leave the world--I'll enter a lunatic asylum and see if the profundity of insanity reveals to me the riddles of life. Idiot, why didn't I do that long ago, why has it taken me so long to understand what it means when the Indians honour the insane, step aside for them? Yes, a lunatic asylum--don't you think I may end up there?

    Taken   Mean   Thinking  
  • Poetry interprets in two ways: it interprets by expressing, with magical felicity, the physiognomy and movements of the outward world; and it interprets by expressing, with inspired conviction, the ideas and laws of the inward world of man's moral and spiritual nature. In other words, poetry is interpretative both by having natural magic in it, and by having moral profundity.

    Spiritual   Men   Law  
    Matthew Arnold (1875). “Essays in Criticism”, p.128, London : [s.n.]
  • Profundity easily turns into dullness and astuteness deteriorates into wit. Be guided by natural common sense and it will accommodate great and small.

  • Could truth perhaps be a woman who has reasons for not permitting her reasons to be seen? Could her name perhaps be--to speak Greek--Baubo?... Oh, those Greeks! They understood how to live: to do that it is necessary to stop bravely at the surface, the fold, the skin, to adore the appearance, to believe in forms, in tones, in words, in the whole Olympus of appearance! Those Greeks were superficial--out of profundity!

    Truth   Believe   Names  
  • The real deep text of music and the whole reason that it has continued with the profundity and urgency that it has for over a thousand years, has to do with what the notes say, what the notes witness, different experiences of hope or doubt that people are able to distill and encode and pass on in this way.

    "The Superconductor: SF Symphony’s Michael Tilson Thomas". Interview with Clara Jeffery, www.motherjones.com. March/April 2010.
  • If you study life deeply, its profundity will seize you suddenly with dizziness.

    Life   Study   Profundity  
    Albert Schweitzer (2005). “Albert Schweitzer: Essential Writings”
  • A man's profundity may keep him from opening on a first interview, and his caution on a second; but I should suspect his emptiness, if he carried on his reserve to a third.

    Men   Silence   May  
    Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.350
  • Few look for truth; many prowl about for a reputation of profundity by arrogantly challenging whichever arguments are the best.

  • Complexity and profundity have been equated by the academic culture just as fame and significance have been conflated by the popular culture. Fame and significance have nothing to do with one another; and complexity and profundity have nothing to do with one another.

    Culture   Academic   Fame  
  • Most people call something profound, not because it is near some important truth but because it is distant from ordinary life. Thus, darkness is profound to the eye, silence to the ear; what-is-not is the profundity of what-is.

    Eye   Profound   People  
    "Forewords and Afterwords" by W. H. Auden, ("Un Homme d'Esprit"), (p. 361), 1973.
  • When a man’s heart is right with God the mysterious utterances of the Bible are spirit and life to him. Spiritual truth is discernible only to a pure heart, not to a keen intellect. It is not a question of profundity of intellect, but of purity of heart.

    Spiritual   Heart   Men  
    Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.30, Discovery House
  • Comedy is hostile to profundity, and brings everything to the surface.

  • Every page must explode, whether through seriousness, profundity, turbulence, nausea, the new, the eternal, annihilating nonsense, enthusiasm for principles, or the way it is printed.

  • I'm glad that so many of Donald Pease's unique and revealing insights on Dr. Seuss--observations he shared with me on camera with an effusiveness and profundity quite unmatched--have found their way into book form. No one tells these tales of young Ted, Mr. Geisel, and Dr. Seuss, and makes the connections between the three of them, quite like Dr. Pease.

    Book   Unique   Cameras  
  • Black and white are absolute...expressing the most delicate vibration, the most profound tranquility, and unlimited profundity.

  • Profundity and originality are attributes of single, if not singular, minds.

    Edwin Herbert Land (1983). “Selected papers on industry”
  • Commitment to a set of rules frees your play to attain a profundity and vigor otherwise impossible.

    Commitment   Play   Vigor  
    Stephen Nachmanovitch (1991). “Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art”, p.84, Penguin
  • Of love it may be said, the less earthly the less demonstrative. In its absolutely indestructible form it reaches a profundity in which all exhibition of itself is painful.

    Thomas Hardy (2016). “The Return of the Native”, p.213, Thomas Hardy
  • This is a large part of the academic profession: to make up complex, subtle arguments that are childishly ridiculous but are enveloped in sufficient profundity that they take on a kind of plausibility.

    Source: progressive.org
  • You've traveled up ten thousand steps in search of the truth. So many days in the archives, copying, copying. The gravity of the Tang and the profundity of the Sung make heavy baggage. Here! I've picked you a bunch of wild flowers. Their meaning is the same but they're much easier to carry.

  • Her mind traveled crooked streets and aimless goat paths, arriving sometimes at profundity, other times at the revelations of a three-year-old. Throughout this fresh, if common, pursuit of knowledge, one conviction crowned her efforts: ...she knew there was nothing to fear.

    Years   Effort   Mind  
    Toni Morrison (1987). “Sula”
  • Whoever knows he is deep tries to be clear, but whoever wants to seem deep to the crowd tries to be obscure. For the crowd supposes that anything it cannot see to the bottom must be deep: it is so timid and goes so unwillingly into the water.

    Water   Trying   Crowds  
  • I believe that music offers us possibilities for analysis, at least in my case, more profound in many ways, but at the same time that profundity is an accessible profundity that has atemporal repercussions.

    "Decolonial Rap". Interview with Andrew Smolski, www.counterpunch.org. May 15, 2015.
  • The spirit of poetry combines the profundity of the philosopher and the child's delight in bright pictures.

  • I am afraid that old women are more skeptical in their most secret heart of hearts than any man: they believe in the superficiality of existence as in its essence, and all virtue and profundity is to them merely a veil over this "truth," a most welcome veil over a pudendum--and so a matter of decency and modesty, and nothing else.

    Women   Believe   Heart  
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