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Image of Michael Pollan
... the way we eat represents our most profound engagement with the natural world. Daily, our eating turns nature into culture, transforming the body of the world into our bodies and minds.
- Michael Pollan
Collection: Profound
Image of Eliezer Yudkowsky
The important graphs are the ones where some things are not connected to some other things. When the unenlightened ones try to be profound, they draw endless verbal comparisons between this topic, and that topic, which is like this, which is like that; until their graph is fully connected and also totally useless.
- Eliezer Yudkowsky
Collection: Profound
Image of Liam Neeson
You just get this profound feeling of instability . . . the Earth isn't stable anymore and then it passes and it becomes more infrequent, but I still get it sometimes.
- Liam Neeson
Collection: Profound
Image of Sylvia Plath
The silence between us was so profound I thought part of it must be my fault.
- Sylvia Plath
Collection: Profound
Image of Friedrich Nietzsche
To go on vegetating in cowardly dependence on physicians and machinations, after the meaning of life, the right to life, has been lost, that ought to prompt a profound contempt in society.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Collection: Profound
Image of Oliver Sacks
A profound intriguing and compelling guide to the intricacies of the human brain.
- Oliver Sacks
Collection: Profound
Image of Rebecca Solnit
...the questions a photographer raises may be more profound than the answers the medium permits.
- Rebecca Solnit
Collection: Profound
Image of Neale Donald Walsch
It has been said that if you don't see God in the profane and the profound, you're missing half the story. That is a great Truth.
- Neale Donald Walsch
Collection: Profound
Image of Friedrich Nietzsche
Everything that is profound loves the mask: the profoundest things have a hatred even of figure and likeness.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Collection: Profound
Image of Michel de Montaigne
The most profound joy has more of gravity than of gaiety in it.
- Michel de Montaigne
Collection: Profound
Image of George Santayana
Profound skepticism is favorable to conventions, because it doubts that the criticism of conventions is any truer than they are.
- George Santayana
Collection: Profound
Image of Edgar Allan Poe
It is clear that a poem may be improperly brief. Undue brevity degenerates into mere epigrammatism. A very short poem, while now and then producing a brilliant or vivid, never produces a profound or enduring, effect. There must be the steady pressing down of the stamp upon the wax.
- Edgar Allan Poe
Collection: Profound
Image of David Abram
What we say has such a profound influence upon what we see, and hear, and taste of the world!
- David Abram
Collection: Profound
Image of William Faulkner
The clock tick-tocked, solemn and profound. It might have been the dry pulse of the decaying house itself, after a while it whirred and cleared its throat and struck six times.
- William Faulkner
Collection: Profound
Image of Andrew Weil
Another aspect of the psychedelic vision for me that has been very profound, is the sense that every-thing is alive or at that at least, there is no distinction between what we call living and non-living.
- Andrew Weil
Collection: Profound
Image of Friedrich Nietzsche
What I really want from Music: That it be cheerful and profound like an afternoon in October.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Collection: Profound
Image of Susanna Kaysen
It's a fairly accurate portrait of me at eighteen, minus a few quirks like reckless driving and eating binges. It's accurate but it isn't profound.
- Susanna Kaysen
Collection: Profound
Image of Tariq Ramadan
You can’t be good to others if you’re not strict with yourself. The more shallow you are with yourself, the harsher you are with others. The more profound you are with yourself, the more generous you are with others
- Tariq Ramadan
Collection: Profound
Image of Freya Stark
Few - very few - of our attainments are so profound that they are valid for always; even if they are so, they need adjustment, a straightening here, a loosening there, like an old garment to be fitted to the body.
- Freya Stark
Collection: Profound
Image of Friedrich Nietzsche
Every profound spirit needs a mask.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Collection: Profound
Image of Friedrich Nietzsche
He who knows himself to be profound endeavors to be clear; he who would like to appear profound to the crowd endeavors to be obscure.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Collection: Profound
Image of Simone de Beauvoir
Buying is profound pleasure.
- Simone de Beauvoir
Collection: Profound
Image of George Takei
If leadership requires a fired-up sense of purpose and imagination, it also demands a profound connection to the society to be led.
- George Takei
Collection: Profound
Image of Madame de Stael
... in the history of the human mind there has never been a useful thought or a profound truth that has not found its century and admirers.
- Madame de Stael
Collection: Profound
Image of Friedrich Nietzsche
Every profound spirit needs a mask: even more, around every profound spirit a mask is continually growing.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Collection: Profound
Image of Paramahansa Yogananda
Nothing may truly be said to be a miracle except in the profound sense that everything is a miracle.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
Collection: Profound
Image of Walt Whitman
All the things of the universe are perfect miracles, each as profound as any.
- Walt Whitman
Collection: Profound
Image of Friedrich Nietzsche
In the end things must be as they are and have always been--the great things remain for the great, the abysses for the profound, the delicacies and thrills for the refined, and, to sum up shortly, everything rare for the rare.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Collection: Profound
Image of Ned Vizzini
Some of the most profound truths about us are things that we stop saying in the middle.
- Ned Vizzini
Collection: Profound
Image of Dorothy Parker
I might repeat to myself . . . a list of quotations from minds profound - if I can remember any of the damn things.
- Dorothy Parker
Collection: Profound
Image of Albert Schweitzer
The Bhagavad-Gita has a profound influence on the spirit of mankind by its devotion to God which is manifested by actions.
- Albert Schweitzer
Collection: Profound
Image of William Carlos Williams
One by one the objects are defined? It quickens: clarity, outline of leaf But now the stark dignity of entrance?Still, the profound change has come upon them: rooted, they grip down and begin to awaken.
- William Carlos Williams
Collection: Profound
Image of Pope John Paul II
Catholic education aims not only to communicate facts but also to transmit a coherent, comprehensive vision of life, in the conviction that the truths contained in that vision liberate students in the most profound meaning of human freedom.
- Pope John Paul II
Collection: Profound
Image of Pope John Paul II
The most profound and serious indication of the moral implications underlying the ecological problem is the lack of respect for life evident in many of the patterns of environmental pollution.
- Pope John Paul II
Collection: Profound
Image of Bertrand Russell
The more intense has been the religion of any period and the more profound has been the dogmatic belief, the greater has been the cruelty and the worse has been the state of affairs.
- Bertrand Russell
Collection: Profound
Image of Hilary Swank
I feel like I've had a really great intense relationship with every single Director I've ever worked with. I can't say there's one that hasn't been deep and profound in its own way.
- Hilary Swank
Collection: Profound
Image of Oswald Chambers
The measure of the worth of our public activity for God is the private profound communion we have with Him.
- Oswald Chambers
Collection: Profound
Image of Albert Camus
A profound thought is in a constant state of becoming; it adopts the experience of a life and assumes its shape.
- Albert Camus
Collection: Profound
Image of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
The most telling and profound way of describing the evolution of the universe would undoubtedly be to trace the evolution of love.
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Collection: Profound
Image of Augusten Burroughs
My attraction had been immediate and profound. And it had nothing to do with the way he looked. My attraction was to what resided between his lines.
- Augusten Burroughs
Collection: Profound
Image of William J. Clinton
The most profound security threat we face today is global warming....climate change has the capacity to change the way all of us live.
- William J. Clinton
Collection: Profound
Image of Charlotte Mason
Profound thought is conveyed in language of very great simplicity and purity.
- Charlotte Mason
Collection: Profound
Image of Matthieu Ricard
Happiness can’t be reduced to a few agreeable sensations. Rather, it is a way of being and of experiencing the world—a profound fulfillment that suffuses every moment and endures despite inevitable setbacks.
- Matthieu Ricard
Collection: Profound
Image of Woody Allen
One filmmaker makes films that are deep, intellectual, profound and confrontational. And the other one makes purely vacuous, escapist films. I'm not sure the one who makes escapist films is making a poorer contribution than the one who makes the deeper films.
- Woody Allen
Collection: Profound
Image of Edmund Burke
I set out with a perfect distrust of my own abilities, a total renunciation of every speculation of my own, and with a profound reverence for the wisdom of our ancestors, who have left us the inheritance of so happy a Constitution and so flourishing an empire, and, what is a thousand times more valuable, the treasury of the maxims and principles which formed the one and obtained the other.
- Edmund Burke
Collection: Profound
Image of Anna Brownell Jameson
All my own experience of life teaches me the contempt of cunning, not the fear. The phrase "profound cunning," has always seemed to me a contradiction in terms. I never knew a cunning mind which was not either shallow, or on some point diseased.
- Anna Brownell Jameson
Collection: Profound
Image of Jerry A. Coyne
It takes a profound hypocrisy to try to reconcile for others things that you can't reconcile for yourself.
- Jerry A. Coyne
Collection: Profound
Image of Noam Chomsky
I don't suggest that the observations are surprising or profound. Rather, they seem to me the merest truisms. I was not aware that [ Michel] Foucault had used the phrase "speaking truth to power." I had thought it was an old Quaker phrase.
- Noam Chomsky
Collection: Profound
Image of Robert McKee
Given the choice between trivial material brilliantly told versus profound material badly told, an audience will always choose the trivial told brilliantly.
- Robert McKee
Collection: Profound