Sweet is the voice of a sister in the season of sorrow.
Benjamin DisraeliRead
The profound thinker always suspects that he is superficial.
Interpretation
A deep thinker often questions the depth of their own thoughts.
This quote by Benjamin Disraeli suggests that those who contemplate deeply about life and ideas tend to doubt their own understanding, feeling that they only grasp the surface of larger truths. It reflects the notion that intellectual humility is a sign of true wisdom, as profound thinkers recognize the vastness of knowledge and their own limitations in comprehending it fully.
In practice
In a philosophy class while discussing the nature of knowledge.
Sweet is the voice of a sister in the season of sorrow.
But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day.
Grief is the agony of an instant. The indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.
Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
Yes, I am a Jew and when the ancestors of the right honorable gentleman were brutal savages in an unknown island, mine were priests in the temple of Solomon.
The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation.
The love of God is a hard love. It demands total self-surrender, disdain of our human personality. And yet it alone can reconcile us to suffering and the deaths of children, it alone can justify them, since we cannot understand them, and we can only make God's will ours.
The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.
I'm craving more soul, I'm craving more truth, I'm craving more socially - just people that are aware of what's going on in the world.
I am alone here in my own mind. There is no map and there is no road. It is one of a kind just as yours is.
I'm pretty, but not beautiful. _x000D_ I sin, but I'm not the devil. _x000D_ I'm good, but I'm not an angel.
To hell with the future. It's a man-eating idol.
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