Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Vanity Quotes, Profound Quotes

Yet some natures are too good to be spoiled by praise, and wherever the vein of thought reaches down into the profound, there is no danger from vanity. Solemn friends will warn them of the danger of the head's being turned by the flourish of trumpets, but they can afford to smile.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Vanity Quotes , Profound Quotes

It is the night-black Massachusetts legendry which packs the really macabre "kick". Here is material for a really profound study in group-neuroticism; for certainly, no one can deny the existence of a profoundly morbid streak in the Puritan imagination.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : H. P. Lovecraft Quotes , Night Quotes , Profound Quotes

Nobody knows like a woman how to say things at the same time sweet and profound. Sweetness and depth, this is all of woman; this is all of Heaven.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Sweet Quotes , Profound Quotes

There is immeasurably more left inside than what comes out in words. Your thought, even a bad one, while it is with you, is always more profound, but in words it is more ridiculous and dishonorable.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes , Profound Quotes , Ridiculous Quotes

James Clerk Maxwell's [work is the] most profound and the most fruitful.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Albert Einstein Quotes , Profound Quotes , Clerks Quotes

One must shed the bad taste of wanting to agree with many. "Good" is no longer good when one's neighbor mouths it. And how should there be a "common good"! The term contradicts itself: whatever can be common always has little value. In the end it must be as it is and always has been: great things remain for the great, abysses for the profound, nuances and shudders for the refined, and, in brief, all that is rare for the rare.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Profound Quotes , Mouths Quotes

The parents age must be remembered, both for joy and anxiety.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Confucius Quotes , Profound Quotes , Joy Quotes

Warhol came from an ordinary family and he had a profound understanding about capitalism and material culture. He was probably one of the few Western artists - or artists from the United States - that could be considered a true product of his time and brought out that kind of spirit of the culture.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ai Weiwei Quotes , Artist Quotes , Profound Quotes

She smiled at him, making sure that the smile gathered up everything inside her and directed it toward him, making him a profound promise of herself for so little, for the beat of a response, the assurance of a complimentary vibration in him.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Profound Quotes , Promise Quotes

Profound virtue is indeed deep and wide. It leads all things back to the great order.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Laozi Quotes , Order Quotes , Profound Quotes

Music is the answer to the mystery of life. The most profound of all the arts, It expresses the deepest thoughts of life.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes , Art Quotes , Profound Quotes

In short, you have only your emotions to sell. This is the experience of all writers.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Profound Quotes , Emotion Quotes

It is customary to complain of the bustle and strenuousness of our epoch. But in truth the chief mark of our epoch is a profound laziness and fatigue; and the fact is that the real laziness is the cause of the apparent bustle.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Real Quotes , Profound Quotes

He who knows himself to be profound endeavors to be clear; he who would like to appear profound to the crowd endeavors to be obscure.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Profound Quotes , Crowds Quotes

There are four kinds of Homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Humorous Quotes , Profound Quotes

Every profound spirit needs a mask.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Profound Quotes , Needs Quotes

Profound sincerity is the only basis of talent as of character.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Character Quotes , Profound Quotes

There is the unknown and the unknowable which propounds all creation. This we cannot love , we can only accept it as a term of our own limitation and ratification. We can only know that from the unknown, profound desires enter in upon us, and that the fulfilling of these desires is the fulfilling of creation.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : D. H. Lawrence Quotes , Profound Quotes , Desire Quotes

In the end things must be as they are and have always been--the great things remain for the great, the abysses for the profound, the delicacies and thrills for the refined, and, to sum up shortly, everything rare for the rare.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Profound Quotes , Delicacy Quotes

Ancient masters of excellence had a subtle essence, and a depth too profound to comprehend.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Laozi Quotes , Essence Quotes , Profound Quotes