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«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.»
«Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.»
Author: Octavio Paz
| About:
Loneliness,
Men,
Solitude
| Keywords:
Human condition, profoundest, The Human Condition
«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.»
Author: Elias Canetti
(Novelist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
disappears, palm, philosophers, profoundest, trickle, trickled, trickles, trickling
«The greatest obstacle to being heroic is to 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 to be obeyed.»
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
heroic, heroism, obeyed, obstacle, profoundest, resisted, truest
«Religions that teach brotherly love have been used as an excuse for persecution, and our profoundest scientific insight is made into a means of mass destruction.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Religion
| Keywords:
brotherly, brotherly love, insight, persecution, profoundest
«It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon.»
Author: Christian Nevell Bovee
| Keywords:
mused, Muses, musing, profoundest, The Lover, The Object of, The Unseen, unseen
«I know my fate. One day there will be associated with my name the recollection of something frightful / of a crisis like no other before on earth, of the profoundest collision of conscience, of a decision evoked against everything that until then had been believed in, demanded, sanctified. I am not a man I am dynamite.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
associated, collision, collisions, crisis, demanded, dynamite, evoke, evoked, evokes, evoking, frightful, profoundest, recollection, recollections, sanctified, sanctifies, sanctifying
«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.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
boredom, contemplation, despondency, draught, draughts, duties, ennui, entrenched, entrenches, fountain, innermost, profoundest, quarter, receives, refreshes, refreshing, such as
«The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
equal, finds, mine, profoundest, publishes, sleeps
«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.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| About:
Books,
Passion
| Keywords:
profoundest, publishes, sensibility, sleeps
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