"Mysticism is, in essence, little more than a certain intensity and depth of feeling in regard to what is believed about the universe."
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"I'm going to save my public voice largely for the issues where I have some depth."
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"Our notion of symmetry is derived form the human face. Hence, we demand symmetry horizontally and in breadth only, not vertically nor in depth."
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"The more one endeavors to sound the depths of his ignorance the deeper the chasm appears."
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"Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid."
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"The deepest depth of vulgarism is that of setting up money as the ark of the covenant."
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"God is so committed to your ultimate joy that he was willing to plunge into the greatest depths of suffering himself for you."
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"Through suffering we have endured the assaults of time; reverses have ever been our beginning; and out of the depths God has gathered us to his heart."
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"The nature of matter, or body considered in general, consists not in its being something which is hard or heavy or coloured, or which affects the senses in any way, but simply in its being something which is extended in length, breadth and depth."
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"I always love depth. I like looking through windows, through frames, through spaces into other spaces."
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"To try to understand another human being, to grapple for his ultimate depths, that is the most dangerous of human endeavors."
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"I can now see to the bottom of my own depths, there is nothing stopping my gaze, no obstacle is in the way. And there is nothing there."
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"The Germans are like women, you can scarcely ever fathom their depths - they haven't any."
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"Seek not the depths of your knowledge with staff or sounding line. For self is a sea boundless and measureless."
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"In the depth of your hopes and desires lies your silent knowledge of the beyond."
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"We are surrounded by abysses, but the greatest of all depths is in our own heart, and an irresistible leaning leads us there. Draw thyself from thyself!"
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"We cannot be satisfied with things as they are. We cannot be satisfied to drift, to rest on our oars, to glide over a sea whose depths are shaken by subterranean upheavals."
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"The day is not purer than the depths of my heart."
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"God is not a personality outside of you. What God is, is inextricably part of what you are. God is the dimension of depth within you."
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"Is life worth living? Aye, with the best of us, Heights of us, depths of us- Life is the test of us!"
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