Profundity Quotes - Page 2

• The greatest achievements in the science of this [twentieth] century are themselves the sources of more puzzlement than human beings have ever experienced. Indeed, it is likely that the twentieth century will be looked back at as the time when science provided the first close glimpse of the profundity of human ignorance. We have not reached solutions; we have only begun to discover how to ask questions.

  Lewis Thomas

  Ignorance, Science, Achievement

  7 Copiar cita

• A big silvery janitor. Penny, this can’t be how the universe works.” “In the Order we call it ‘inverse profundity.’ We’ve observed it in any number of cases. The deeper you go into the cosmic mysteries, the less interesting everything gets.

  Lev Grossman

  Order, Numbers, Interesting

  Lev Grossman (2015). “The Magicians Trilogy”, p.533, Penguin

  7 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente

• Quien sabe que es profundo trata de ser claro, pero quien quiere parecer profundo a la multitud trata de ser oscuro. Porque la multitud supone que todo lo que no puede ver hasta el fondo debe ser profundo: es tan tímida y se mete tan de mala gana en el agua.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Water, Trying, Crowds

  6 Copiar cita

• Profundity easily turns into dullness and astuteness deteriorates into wit. Be guided by natural common sense and it will accommodate great and small.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Common Sense, Natural, Wit

  4 Copiar cita

• People who came to the clinics or came to the fundraiser knew what was happening in their state but didn't realize the profundity of what was happening all over the place. But the third thing [was] that at every single clinic I went to, somebody who worked there - it could have been the doctor, it could have been the receptionist - said, "Thank you for coming, no one ever comes." And it broke my heart...I've used these services, I've had an abortion, I got to be where I am because of access to making choices to have the life I wanted.

  Lizz Winstead

  Heart, Doctors, People

  Fuente: www.glamour.com

  7 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente

• 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

  Mean, Carpe Diem, Vanity

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.618, Wordsworth Editions

  25 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente

• The amount of chiaroscuro an idea harbors is the only index of its profundity.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Ideas, Chiaroscuro, Harbors

  Emile M. Cioran (1975). "Breve historia de la decadencia", Viking Books

  16 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente

• Sólo el gran dolor -ese dolor lento y sostenido que se toma su tiempo, en el que, por así decirlo, nos quemamos con leña verde humeante- nos obliga a los filósofos a hundirnos en nuestra máxima profundidad y a acabar con toda la confianza, todo lo bondadoso, lo que impone un velo, lo suave y lo mediocre, en lo que podamos haber basado previamente nuestra humanidad. Dudo que ese dolor nos haga "mejores", pero sé que nos hace más profundos.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Pain, Humanity, Doubt

  7 Copiar cita

• The silliest and most tendentious of baseball writing tries to wrest profundity from the spectacle of grown men hitting a ball with a stick by suggesting linkages between the sport and deep issues of morality, parenthood, history, lost innocence, gentleness, and so on, seemingly ad infinitum . (The effort reeks of silliness because baseball is profound all by itself and needs no excuses; people who don't know this are not fans and are therefore unreachable anyway.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Sports, Baseball, Writing

  Stephen Jay Gould (1991). "Brontosaurus: Reflexiones en Historia Natural", W W Norton & Company Incorporated

  4 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente

• La disciplina del sufrimiento, del gran sufrimiento, ¿no sabéis que sólo esta disciplina ha creado hasta ahora todas las mejoras del hombre? Esa tensión del alma en la infelicidad que cultiva su fuerza, sus estremecimientos frente a la gran ruina, su inventiva y su valor para soportar, preservar, interpretar y explotar el sufrimiento, y todo lo que le ha sido concedido de profundidad, secreto, máscara, espíritu, astucia, grandeza, ¿no le fue concedido a través del sufrimiento, a través de la disciplina del gran sufrimiento?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Grandeza, Hombres, Disciplina

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.344, Modern Library

  170 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente

• At first there is nothing, then there is a profound nothingness, after that a blue profundity.

  Yves Klein

  Blue, Profound, Firsts

  60 Copiar cita

• Sometimes I try my hand at turning out small profundities and uncertain short stories, but I always end up with just one single word: God.

  Etty Hillesum

  God, Hands, Trying

  Etty Hillesum, K. A. D. Smelik, Arnold Pomerans (2002). “Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943”, p.640, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

  12 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente

• ¿Podría ser la verdad una mujer que tiene razones para no permitir que se vean sus razones? ¿Podría llamarse, para hablar en griego, Baubo?... ¡Oh, esos griegos! Comprendían cómo vivir: ¡para ello es necesario detenerse valientemente en la superficie, en el pliegue, en la piel, adorar la apariencia, creer en las formas, en los tonos, en las palabras, en todo el Olimpo de la apariencia! Aquellos griegos eran superficiales: ¡fuera de la profundidad!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Truth, Believe, Names

  4 Copiar cita

• The spirit of poetry combines the profundity of the philosopher and the child's delight in bright pictures.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Children, Philosophical, Poetry

  4 Copiar cita

• 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.

  Matthew Arnold

  Spiritual, Men, Law

  Matthew Arnold (1875). “Essays in Criticism”, p.128, London : [s.n.]

  4 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente

• 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.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Men, Silence, May

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.350

  7 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente

• Questions are not happenstance thoughts nor are questions common problems of today which one picks up from hearsay and booklearning and decks out with a gesture of profundity questions grow out of confrontation with the subject matter and the subject matter is there only where eyes are, it is in this manner that questions will be posed and all the more considering that questions that have today fallen out of fashion in the great industry of problems. One stands up for nothing more than the normal running of the industry. Philosophy interprets its corruption as the resurrection of metaphysics.

  Martin Heidegger

  Running, Fashion, Philosophy

  10 Copiar cita

• We're all vanishing organisms and disappearing creatures in space and time - that death sentence in space in time that Kafka talked about with such profundity.

  Cornel West

  Space, Vanishing, Disappear

  "Cornel West, 'Vivir y amar en voz alta'". "Talk of the Nation" con Neal Conan, www.npr.org. 29 de octubre de 2009.

  6 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente

• 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.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Women, Believe, Heart

  5 Copiar cita

• Cuando hablo de realidad, pienso siempre en lo esencial. La profundidad no se encuentra en una región remota e inaccesible. Está enraizada en la vida cotidiana.

  Antoni Tapies

  Realidad, Pensamiento, Cotidiano

  "Antoni Tapies". El Correo de la UNESCO, junio de 1994.

  13 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente

• With its claims to profundity, boldness and originality, thinking still limits itself provisionally to the exclusively rational and scientific. ... As soon as it lays hold of the feelings, it becomes spirit.

  Robert Musil

  Thinking, Feelings, Limits

  Robert Musil, Burton Pike, David S. Luft (1995). “Precision and Soul: Essays and Addresses”, p.43, University of Chicago Press

  7 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente

• Los hechos realmente importantes eran que las relaciones espaciales habían dejado de importar mucho y que mi mente percibía el mundo en términos de categorías distintas de las espaciales. En momentos normales, el ojo se preocupa de problemas como ¿dónde? - ¿a qué distancia? - ¿cómo está situado con respecto a qué? En la experiencia con mescalina, las preguntas implícitas a las que responde el ojo son de otro orden. El lugar y la distancia dejan de tener interés. La mente percibe en términos de intensidad de la existencia, profundidad del significado, relaciones dentro de un patrón.

  Aldous Huxley

  Distancia, Ojo, Orden

  Aldous Huxley (2002). "Ensayos completos: 1939-1956", Ivan R Dee

  4 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente

• 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

  Exhibitions, May, Painful

  Thomas Hardy (2016). “The Return of the Native”, p.213, Thomas Hardy

  4 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente

• All that is necessary to raise imbecility into what the mob regards as profundity is to lift it off the floor and put it on a platform.

  George Jean Nathan

  Stupidity, Platforms, Raises

  George Jean Nathan, Charles Angoff (1998). "El mundo de George Jean Nathan: Essays, Reviews, & Commentary", Hal Leonard Corporation

  9 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente

• 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.

  Ron Lamothe

  Book, Unique, Cameras

  4 Copiar cita