That extremes beget extremes is an apothegm built on the most profound observation of the human mind..
The profound calm which only apparently precedes and prophesies of the storm, is perhaps more awful than the storm itself; for indeed, the calm is bu….
In terms of what I write about, I consider no subject too small. Often it's the small moments, that through the amplification of poetry, reveal the l….
The TUC's new slogan 'a future that works' sets a profound challenge. Austerity and rapid deficit reduction is failing in its own terms, but even at ….
Nevertheless so profound is our ignorance, and so high our presumption, that we marvel when we hear of the extinction of an organic being; and as we ….
The world is only as deep as we can see. This is why fools think themselves profound. This is why terror is the passion of revelation..
Health is wholeness--wholeness in its most profound sense, with nothing left out and everything in just the right order to manifest the mystery of ba….
No political party can possibly lead a great revolutionary movement to victory unless it possesses revolutionary theory and knowledge of history and ….
I would like to believe that the discovery of even a single fossil bacteria on Mars would teach us what we ought to know all along, and that is what ….
No one will be offended if we tell them that they are good people who could be a little better. The offense comes when we tell them that they - and w….
The only theism worthy of our respect believes in God not because of the way the world is made but in spite of that. The only theism that is no less ….
These days it seems the lyric impulse, so seemingly fragile, comes in for a lot of abuse-or simply a lot of mistrust. What's it for, anyway, in this ….
That which is lacking in the present world is a profound knowledge of the nature of things..
Why do men learn through pain and suffering, and not through pleasure and happiness? Very simply, because pleasure and happiness accustom one to sati….
I don't suggest that the observations are surprising or profound. Rather, they seem to me the merest truisms. I was not aware that [ Michel] Foucault….
It is apparent that only a certain kind of person will want to make ethnographic films, It will, above all, be those who sense the profound affinity ….
It's this thing that's going on all the time - aging. Paul Auster quotes the poet George Opren on growing old: "What a strange thing to happen to a l….
The presidents varied in the degree to which they cited the founders. Some, like JFK, LBJ, [Richard] Nixon, and [Bill] Clinton, cited them somewhat f….
We're like little puppies chasing our tails. We realize we're never getting what we want and then realize we need to do something a bit more profound..
It's very interesting to think about the distinction with mind, which I just made in very general terms, but it can be made more profound when we thi….
My belief in free speech is so profound that I am seldom tempted to deny it to the other fellow. Nor do I make any effort to differentiate between th….