#profundity

You're working on being a father, so that is something that when you experience it you'll understand the profundity of wanting to protect something dear to you. ↗

— Harvey Keitel

#dear #experience #father #profundity #protect

Quite possibly, the purpose of the universe is to provide a congenial home for self-conscious creatures who can ask profound questions and who can probe the nature of the universe itself. ↗

— Owen Gingerich

#profundity #purpose #self-consciousness #universe #home

Anyone who realises what Love is, the dedication of the heart, so profound, so absorbing, so mysterious, so imperative, and always just in the noblest natures so strong, cannot fail to see how difficult, how tragic even, must often be the fate of those whose deepest feelings are destined from the earliest days to be a riddle and a stumbling-block, unexplained to themselves, passed over in silence by others. ↗

— Edward Carpenter

#love #mystery #profundity #sexuality #stigmas

Ask a true scientist a very profound question on his science, and he will be silent. Ask a true religious person a very simple question on his religion, and he will be frenzied. ↗

— Kedar Joshi

#religion #science #scientists #simplicity #religion

A thought, even a possibility, can shatter and transform us. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#profundity #thought #possibility

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

#profundity #cosmic-ordering

Now, in reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them to be men of much greater profundity then they really are. ↗

— Henry Fielding

#critics #great #greater #imagined #men

The world have payed too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them men of much greater profundity than they really are. ↗

— Henry Fielding

#critics #great #greater #imagined #men

As regards intellectual work it remains a fact, indeed, that great decisions in the realm of thought and momentous discoveries and solutions of problems are only possible to an individual, working in solitude. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#analysis #discoveries #greatness #intellect #intellectual-thought

You can't learn pathos or profundity. ↗

— Nigel Kennedy

#pathos #profundity #you