#profound

One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#able #attractions #bully #cheat #feeling

Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you. ↗

— Chuck Klosterman

#love #profound #art

It is not that the French are not profound, but they all express themselves so well that we are led to take their geese for swans. ↗

— Van Wyck Brooks

#french #geese #led #profound #swans

Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is? ↗

— Saint Augustine

#deep #even #hidden #him #man

In art and music, particularly in the 20th century, there was a big period there where for something to be called profound you had to not be able to understand it. ↗

— Joshua Bell

#able #art #big #called #century

Hiroshima had a profound effect upon me. ↗

— Wilfred Burchett

#had #hiroshima #me #profound #profound effect

This open eye for possible alternatives which need to be scrutinized before we can determine which is the best grounded is profoundly disconcerting to all conservatives and to almost all revolutionaries. ↗

— Morris Raphael Cohen

#alternatives #before #best #conservatives #determine

In the early days, I often felt that I was taking a math test when we were playing. It was a profound feeling of having to prove myself. ↗

— Chris Stein

#early #feeling #felt #having #i

I actually profoundly think the world's a better place when economics is fairly boring... The more boring the better. ↗

— Evan Davis

#better #better place #boring #economics #fairly

The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple. ↗

— Freeman Dyson

#had #human #human life #life #most