Profoundest Quotes

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 thoughts of the philosophers have something trickle about them. A lot disappears in order for something to suddenly appear in the palm of the hand. - Elias Canetti

The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

The profoundest of all sensualities is the sense of truth and the next deepest sensual experience is the sense of justice. - DH Lawrence

The profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader. The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed. - Nathaniel Hawthorne

Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone. - Octavio Paz

One receives as reward for much ennui, despondency, boredom --such as a solitude without friends, books, duties, passions must bring with it --those quarter-hours of profoundest contemplation within oneself and nature. He who completely entrenches himself against boredom also entrenches himself against himself: he will never get to drink the strongest refreshing draught from his own innermost fountain. - Friedrich Nietzsche