Quotes with profoundest

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• Religions that teach brotherly love have been used as an excuse for persecution, and our profoundest scientific insight is made into a means of mass destruction.

  Last Philosophical Testament: 1943-68

  Bertrand Russell
  English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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• The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  American short story writer (1804 - 1864)
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• The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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• The profoundest thoughts of the philosophers have something trickle about them. A lot disappears in order for something to suddenly appear in the palm of the hand.

  Elias Canetti
  Austrian novelist and philosopher (1905 - 1994)
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