#profound

Slowly blossomed, slowly ripened in Siddhartha the realisation, the knowledge, what wisdom actually was, what the goal of his long search was. It was nothing but a readiness of the soul, an ability, a secret art, to think every moment, while living his life, the thought of oneness, to be able to feel and inhale the oneness. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#art

Who knoweth if to die be but to live, and that called life by mortals be but death? ↗

— Euripides

#philosophical #profound #wisdom #death

What is needed now is a transformation of the major systems of production more profound than even the sweeping post-World War II changes in production technology. ↗

— Barry Commoner

#even #ii #major #more #needed

Maybe subconsciously I've kept activism separate from acting because it's important to me in a more profound way. ↗

— Blythe Danner

#activism #because #i #important #kept

How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum. ↗

— Joseph Joubert

#appear #create #hide #how #make

I'd thought sexuality was instinctive or natural, but it's profoundly linked to inner security and cultural context. ↗

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

#cultural #i #inner #instinctive #linked

The only way you can have it all is by delegating all the running of the home to other people - which I don't ever want to do... So you do it yourself, and it takes time and energy and effort. And if you give it the time, it's profoundly enjoyable. ↗

— Emma Thompson

#energy #enjoyable #ever #give #home

India profoundly changed my outlook on life because you see how people can be content and very happy with little or even no possessions. It's the reverse of the West. ↗

— Gary Wright

#changed #content #even #happy #how

The left-leaning thinking that dominates the movie business follows a common liberal instinct to deny the spiritual dimension to every problem, thereby profoundly compounding the difficulties. ↗

— Michael Medved

#common #compounding #deny #difficulties #dimension

Our chief justices have probably had more profound and lasting influence on their times and on the direction of the nation than most presidents. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

#direction #had #influence #justices #lasting