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“I hope that no one present will suspect me of offering my personal criticism of the Western system to present socialism as an alternative. Having experienced applied socialism in a country where the alternative has been realized, I certainly will not speak for it. The well-known Soviet mathematician Shafarevich, a member of the Soviet Academy of Science, has written a brilliant book under the title Socialism; it is a profound analysis showing that socialism of any type and shade leads to a total destruction of the human spirit and to a leveling of mankind into death.”

Source: The Doctor's Dilemma

“The effectiveness of a doctrine does not come from its meaning but from its certitude. No doctrine however profound and sublime will be effective unless it is presented as the embodiment of the one and only truth”

Doe Belief Truth Is Profound Doctrine Sublime Effectiveness Embodiment Certitude

Book:Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer

Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer

“In many areas of understanding, none so much as in our understanding of God, we bump up against a simplicity so profound that we must assign complexities to it to comprehend it at all. It is mindful of how we paste decals to a sliding glass door to keep from bumping our nose against it.”

God Understanding Doors Areas Profound Simplicity Glasses Noses Complexity Bumps

Author:Robert Breault

“Many people have written about the economic meaning of globalization; in One World Peter Singer explains its moral meaning. His position is carefully developed, his tone is moderate, but his conclusions are radical and profound. No political theorist or moral philosopher, no public official or political activist, can afford to ignore his arguments.”

“To produce things and to rear them, To produce, but not to take possession of them, To act, but not to rely on one's own ability, To lead them, but not to master them - This is called profound and secret virtue.”

Character Happiness Ability Secret Virtue Produce Masters Profound Possession Rely

Author:Laozi

“As the mind learns to understand more complicated combinations of ideas, simpler formulae soon reduce their complexity; so truths that were discovered only by great effort, that could at first only be understood by men capable of profound thought, are soon developed and proved by methods that are not beyond the reach of common intelligence. The strength and the limits of man”

Men Mind Firsts Ideas Common Effort Limits Capable Understood Method Profound Complicated Combination Complexity Great Effort Profound Thoughts

Author:Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet

“To associate with other like-minded people in small, purposeful groups is for the great majority of men and women a source of profound psychological satisfaction. Exclusiveness will add to the pleasure of being several, but at one; and secrecy will intensify it almost to ecstasy.”

People Men Pleasure Groups Society Source Men And Women Majority Add Profound Satisfaction Psychological Ecstasy Associates Secrecy

Book:Complete Essays: 1930-1935

Source: Complete Essays: 1930-1935

“There are two men in Tolstoy. He is a mystic and he is also a realist. He is addicted to the practice of a pietism that for all its sincerity is nothing if not vague and sentimental; and he is the most acute and dispassionate of observers, the most profound and earnest student of character and emotion.”

Ifs Men Two Character Emotion Practice Students Profound Sincerity Vague Sentimental Observers Earnest Mystic Realist Dispassionate

Book:Views and Reviews: Essays in Appreciation: Literature

Source: Views and Reviews: Essays in Appreciation: Literature

“We often have need of a profound philosophy to restore to our feelings their original state of innocence, to find our way out of the rubble of things alien to us, to begin to feel for ourselves and to speak ourselves, and I might almost say to exist ourselves.”

Way Needs Feels States Philosophy Feelings Might Science Speak Originals Profound Philosopher Aliens Innocence Rubble

Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg

“All through my boyhood I had a profound conviction that I was no good, that I was wasting my time, wrecking my talents, behaving with monstrous folly and wickedness and ingratitude-and all this, it seemed, was inescapable, because I lived among laws which were absolute, like the law of gravity, but which it was not possible for me to keep.”

Law Talent Absolutes Profound Conviction My Time Folly Gravity Wickedness Monstrous Ingratitude Boyhood Wasting My Time

Book:It is what I think: 1947-1948

Source: It is what I think: 1947-1948

“Philosophy, astronomy, and politics were marked at zero, I remember. Botany variable, geology profound as regards the mud stains from any region within fifty miles of town, chemistry eccentric, anatomy unsystematic, sensational literature and crime records unique, violin player, boxer, swordsman, lawyer, and self-poisoner by cocaine and tobacco.”

Source: The Adventures and the Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

“It is a difficult matter for man to realize the extreme importance of social discriminations which seem outwardly insignificant but which produce in woman moral and intellectual effects so profound that they appear to spring from her original nature.”

Men Matter Seems Social Difficult Realizing Moral Effects Produce Intellectual Spring Importance Originals Profound Extremes Discrimination Insignificant Discord

Book:The Second Sex

Source: The Second Sex

“Clear writers, like fountains, do not seem so deep as they are; the turbid look the most profound.”

Writing Looks Seems Clear Profound Fountain

Author:Walter Savage Landor

“Beneath everything else, North and West, there ran a profound, unvoiced, almost subconscious conviction that the [American] nation was going to go on growing-in size, in power, in everything a man could think of-and in that belief there was a might and a fury that would take form instantly at the moment of shock.”

Thinking Men Moments Might Form Belief Nations Destiny Growing Goes On Profound West Size Conviction Ran Shock Subconscious Fury

Author:Bruce Catton

“Most creatures have a vague belief that a very precarious hazard, a kind of transparent membrane, divides death from love; and that the profound idea of nature demands that the giver of life should die at the moment of giving.”

Giving Should Kind Ideas Moments Dies Belief Sex Demand Creatures Profound Divides Vague Transparent Giver Hazards Precarious Membranes

Book:The Life of the Bee: Works of Maeterlinck

Source: The Life of the Bee: Works of Maeterlinck

“There are two kinds of liberalism. A liberalism which is always, subterraneously authoritative and paternalistic, on the side of one's good conscience. And then there is a liberalism which is more ethical than political; one would have to find another name for this. Something like a profound suspension of judgment.”

Kind Two Political Names Sides Judgment Conscience Profound Liberalism Ethical Suspension

Author:Roland Barthes

“There is a profound and ineradicable taint of antisemitism in the British.”

Profound British

Author:David Mamet

“Surrealism will usher you into death, which is a secret society. It will glove your hand, burying therein the profound M with which the word Memory begins. Do not forget to make proper arrangements for your last will and testament: speaking personally, I ask that I be taken to the cemetery in a moving van. May my friends destroy every last copy of the printing of the Speech concerning the Modicum of Reality.”

“Sex cannot be contained within a definition of physical pleasure, it cannot be understood as merely itself for it has stood for too long as a profound connection between human beings.”

Humans Long Sex Human Beings Pleasure Understood Connections Profound Definitions

Book:Between Myth and Morning: Women Awakening

Source: Between Myth and Morning: Women Awakening

“One of the proud joys of the man of letters - if that man of letters is an artist - is to feel within himself the power to immortalize at will anything he chooses to immortalize. Insignificant though he may be, he is conscious of possessing a creative divinity. God creates lives; the man of imagination creates fictional lives which may make a profound and as it were more living impression on the world's memory.”

Ifs Men World Feels May Book Joy Artist Imagination Memories Creative He Man Proud Conscious Letters Profound Impression Divinity Insignificant Possessing

Author:Edmond de Goncourt

“I've spent the last 50 years or so steeping myself in the world's religions, and I've done my homework. I've gone to each of the world's eight great religions and sought out the most profound scholars I could find, and I've apprenticed myself to them and actually practiced each faith.”

World Years Done Lasts Gone Profound Eight Scholar Homework

Author:Huston Smith

“A man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man. The instructed man is ashamed to pronounce in an orphic manner what everybody knows, and because he is silent people think he is making fun of them. They like a man who expresses their own superficial thoughts in a manner that appears to be profound. This enables them to feel that they are themselves profound.”

People Thinking Knows Men Feels Fun Successful Silent Profound Ashamed Speakers Superficial Platitudes Successful Man

Book:From a writer's notebook

Source: From a writer's notebook

“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.”

Wells Profound Geese Swans

Book:Opinions of Oliver Allston

Source: Opinions of Oliver Allston

“If you wish at once to do nothing and be respectable nowadays, the best pretext is to be at work on some profound study.”

Ifs Wish Study Profound Respectable Pretext

Author:Leslie Stephen

“I can't pick out one single book that had such a profound personal impact.”

I Can Book Picks Impact Profound

Author:Louise Brown

“All black people who are even minimally conscious, black people who have ever experienced Europe's technological power crusading in the vanguard of a civilizing mission, have profound feelings of inferiority and bitterly regret the fact that the Industrial Revolution did not agreeably commence in Dahomey or Dakar. Nothing is achieved by concealing this fact.”

People Facts Feelings Black Regret Revolution Conscious Europe Profound Missions Black People Technological Inferiority Industrial Revolution Concealing All Black Vanguard

Author:Lewis Nkosi

“There was one titanic guiding light on the film set, and I was in the presence of a true Mahatma, in the deepest and most profound sense of the word.”

Light Film Profound Film Set Guiding Light

Author:Ben Kingsley

“I am entirely on the side of mystery. I mean, any attempt to explain away the mystery is ridiculous. I believe in the profound and unfathomable mystery of life which has a sort of divine quality about it.”

Believe Mean I Believe Sides Quality Mystery Divine Perspective Profound I Believe In Ridiculous Unfathomable Mystery Of Life

Author:Aldous Huxley

“The highest level of prayer is not a prayer for anything. It is a deep and profound silence, in which we allow ourselves to be still and know Him. In that silence, we are changed. We are calmed. We are illumined. Prayer is meant to dissolve the worldly focus, to dissolve our sense of a separate self, to help us detach from an insane world order. We pray that He might flood our minds. Prayer is like pouring hot water on an ice cube, melting the cold and encrusted thought forms that still surround our hearts.”

“It was a profound saying of Wilhelm Humboldt, that 'Man is man only by means of speech, but in order to invent speech he must be already man.'”

Men Mean Order Speech Profound

Author:Charles Lyell

“Your meditations may be as profound, as exalted, as devout as you like; you may practise every pious exercise you can manage, but all this is as nothing in comparison with the Blessed Sacrament. What we do may be godly, but this sacrament is God Himself!”

May Meditation Like You Exercise Blessed Profound Manage Comparison Sacraments Godly Exalted Pious Practise Blessed Sacrament

Author:Johannes Tauler

“I do believe that there are some universal cognitive tasks that are deep and profound - indeed, so deep and profound that it is worthwhile to understand them in order to design our displays in accord with those tasks.”

Believe Order Design Tasks Universal Profound Worthwhile Display Accord Cognitive

Author:Edward Tufte

“It was implicitly supposed that every living thing was distinctively plant or animal; that there were real and profound differences between the two, if only they could be seized.”

Ifs Two Real Differences Animal Plant Profound Living Things

Book:Natural science and religion, 2 lectures

Source: Natural science and religion, 2 lectures

“That's maturity-when you realize that you've finally arrived at a state of ignorance as profound as your parents.”

States Parent Realizing Ignorance Profound Maturity

Author:Barbara Mertz

“You could be a rebel, a profound thinker, and a rock and roll maniac and still eat breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and drink a nice cup of tea with your friends.”

Stills Nice Rocks Drink Profound Dinner Cups Tea Breakfast Thinker Lunch Rebel Rock And Roll Cups Of Tea Maniacs

Author:Pamela Des Barres

“My dog and two cats are such a vital part of my life. To say that I am their owner doesn't reflect at all the profound bond and responsibility that I have towards them.”

Two Responsibility Dog Cat Profound Owners My Dog

Author:Tiffani Thiessen

“I have visited some places where the differences between black and white are not as profound as they used to be, but I think there is a new form of racism growing in Europe and that is focused on people who are Middle Eastern. I see it.”

People Thinking Form Used Black Differences White Growing Middle Racism Europe Profound Focused Used To Be Black And White Eastern

Author:Montel Williams

“To a profound pessimist about life, being in danger is not depressing.”

Danger Profound Depressing Pessimist

Book:A Life in Letters

Source: A Life in Letters

“It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.”

Men Wells Differences Race Sick Profound Great Gatsby Book

Author:F. Scott Fitzgerald

“What you see with your eyes when you're making music is going to have a profound effect on what you hear.”

Eye Effects Music Is Profound

Author:Andrew Bird

“I believe that science fiction is as profound as you want it to be or it can be very simple entertainment, and I'm all for very simple entertainment. Every now and then we all need to come home, veg-out, watch something and not think too deeply about it. It's what you want it to be. We tend to steer clear of being pedantic; it's entertainment first, otherwise we'd be on a lecture circuit.”

“Moreover, the concern of some that moving DNA among species would breach customary breeding barriers and have profound effects on natural evolutionary processes has substantially disappeared as the science revealed that such exchanges occur in nature.”

Moving Process Natural Effects Concern Profound Species Barriers Dna Breeding Breach

Author:Paul Berg

“Suffering, it turns out, demands profound imagination. A new future has to be conjured up because the old future isn't there anymore.”

Suffering Turns Imagination Demand Profound New Future

Author:Rob Bell

“It isn't what they say about you, it's what they whisper.”

Wisdom Humor Funny Leadership Communication Humorous Criticism Profound Critics Insane Australia Gossip Hospitality Australian Public Relations

Author:Errol Flynn

“For one thing, I don't think art needs to be about suffering; sometimes it really seems like it's only the art about pain that is interpreted as profound, and in my work for years I've really tried to deal with subjects that are substantial, not just fluffy, but presented in a more playful, approachable kind of way.”

Thinking Way Needs Years Kind Art Sometimes Seems Pain Suffering Deals One Thing Subjects Profound Fluffy

Author:Ellen Forney

“I think 'Make love, not war' might be the most profound statement that's ever been made.”

Thinking Made War Might Profound Statements Making Love Make Love Not War

Author:Jorja Fox

“Physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia have been profound ethical issues confronting doctors since the birth of Western medicine, more than 2,000 years ago.”

Years Has Beens Issues Birth Years Ago Doctors Suicide Medicine Profound Western Ethical Physicians Confronting Euthanasia Assisted Suicide Ethical Issues Western Medicine Physician Assisted Suicide

Author:Ezekiel Emanuel

“Our yearning for democracy is accompanied by a no less profound yearning for peace. And the media also faced the task of historical engineering to establish this required truth. We therefore have phenomena called 'peace missions' and the 'peace process'. These are terms that apply to whatever the United States happens to be doing or advocating at some moment... in short, 'War is Peace'.”

War States Moments Happens Political Language Process Term United United States Democracy Media Tasks Historical Profound Missions Yearning Engineering Advocating

Author:Noam Chomsky

“Thinking in terms of risk certainly has its unsettling aspects (...), but it is also a means of seeking to stabilise outcomes, a mode of colonising the future. The more or less constant, profound and rapid momentum of change characteristic of modern institutions, coupled with structured reflexivity, mean that on the level of everyday practice as well as philosophical [Seitenwechsel] interpretation, nothing can be taken for granted. What is acceptable/appropriate/recommended behaviour today may be seen differently tomorrow in the light of altered circumstances or incoming knowledge-claims.”

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