Philosophy & Thought: Deep Quotes

"The soul is neither inside nor outside the body; neither proximate to nor separate from it"

Muhammed Iqbal, Poet

"The whole concept of the devil is a metaphor on one level"

Taylor Hackford, Director

"The world is in motion, as it seems"

Utada Hikaru, Musician

"All societies are historical"

Raymond Queneau, Poet

"Most of us can't even begin to imagine"

Meg Whitman, Businessman

"Where conscious subjectivity is concerned, there is no distinction between the observation and the thing observed"

John Searle, Philosopher

"Most of my adult life I had this towering contempt for America"

Robert Crumb, Artist

"The body is an inviolable limit. And you have to really hurt it before you know that"

Peter Coyote, Actor

"Marxism conceives of the new system of socialism as the necessary outcome of all previous history, made possible and necessary only by that previous history"

Earl Browder, Activist

"Many people lock a part of themselves away. It's a bit sacred"

Tori Amos, Musician

"Nobody really knows for sure who the Blue Blazer is, but like I said in my interview, there's a little bit of the Blue Blazer in each and every one of us"

Owen Hart, Entertainer

"There are no heroes in most of my stories. I look at our society with a critical eye and find nothing extraordinary in the people I see"

Naguib Mahfouz, Novelist

"There is the churning and the boiling of the sea, and the foam on top of it, and that is what man is, churning and foam together"

Simone Schwarz-Bart, Writer

"To say that it's wrong to feel this way is not the point; you do feel it. All you see is a flash of fire and, depending on your altitude, you don't even see that sometimes"

James Dickey, Novelist

"I think we all have light and dark inside us"

Sean Penn, Actor

"The accusation that we've lost our soul resonates with a very modern concern about authenticity"

Patricia Hewitt, Politician

"We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity"

M. H. Abrams, Critic

"I think that's a result of just a general increase in speed of the vibration of life itself"

Neale Donald Walsch, Author

"It may be easily shown, and is of no small significance, that the two great ideas of which the Anglo-Saxon is the exponent are having a fuller development in the United States than in Great Britain"

Josiah Strong, Clergyman

"Heretofore there has always been in the history of the world a comparatively unoccupied land westward, into which the crowded countries of the East have poured their surplus populations"

Josiah Strong, Clergyman

"For cubic U, I didn't know how it all got started at all"

Utada Hikaru, Musician

"The city is the nerve center of our civilization. It is also the storm center"

Josiah Strong, Clergyman

"Long before the thousand millions are here, the mighty centrifugal tendency, inherent in this stock and strengthened in the United States, will assert itself"

Josiah Strong, Clergyman

"Sight and touch, being thus increased in capacity, might belong to some species far superior to man; or rather the human species would be far different had all the senses been thus improved"

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, Lawyer

"He can't imagine the result of the mission because he never saw it"

James Dickey, Novelist

"A palindrome is a word or pattern that, instead of developing in different directions, it folds in on itself so that the beginning and end mirror each other, that they are the same"

Todd Solondz, Writer

"There is that smaller world which is the stage, and that larger stage which is the world"

Isaac Goldberg, Critic

"Desire creates its own object"

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison, Writer

"I was a great dreamer of day dreams"

Abraham Cahan, Author

"Key metaphors help determine what and how we perceive, and how we think about our perceptions"

M. H. Abrams, Critic

"People are intrigued and fascinated, almost obsessed with the private lives of great public personalities"

Geoffrey Rush, Actor

"But the mind travels far - and mysteriously - in sleep"

Mary A. Ward

"What worries me is the professionalism of everything"

Irvine Welsh, Novelist

"I have a picture of an ideal consciousness"

Henry Flynt, Artist

"Words alone cannot fully convey the realities of the soul or the greatness of the human spirit"

William Shirley, Politician

"Everything was sensory, and I never saw the structure in anything"

Gil Kane, Artist

"My own way of thinking is to ponder long, and I hope deeply on problems, and for a long time, which I keep away for years and years, and I never really let them go"

Roger Penrose, Physicist

"People aren't always themselves. They're always holding back something"

Garth Brooks, Musician

"For me, words are just words, nothing else"

Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Novelist

"If you're interested in how people behave, if you're interested in the way they talk about themselves, the way the conceive of themselves, it's very hard to ignore drugs nowadays, because that is so much part of the conversation"

Jonathan Franzen, Novelist

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