The disastrous 9/11 memorial quotation was, evidently, never intended to be more than a high-sounding, stand-alone phrase, never intended to lead visitors to any more profound thoughts or emotions.
The film will be shown during normal opening at the Hayward Gallery, but there is a 24-hour screening in the Purcell Room on March 5. Though it is huge fun, The Clock also stirs more profound thoughts.
A line within Broom of the System reads "Words and a book and a belief that the world is words... .. Wallace was on his way to discovering something even more profound than those thoughts he had already shared with us.
Although the modern religious impulse has been widely and correctly remembered as having called for the adjustment of religious ideas and practices to the demands of science and contemporary thought, more profound ideas gave the trend its force and integrity.
Through literature the reader is carried beyond the confines of the narrow world that most persons inhabit into a world of thought and feeling more profound and more varied than his own, a world in which he can share the experiences of human beings (real or fictitious) who are far removed from him in space and time and in attitude and way of life.
Together, these works mark the final period of Nietzsche's thought, when he developed a new, more profound, and more systematic teaching rooted in the idea of the eternal recurrence, which he considered his deepest thought.
And then, with quick and characteristic rigour, she adds: "It's not a very profound thought; it's actually more a feeling than a thought".
Only with the publication of the "Selected Writings" has it been possible for English readers to grasp the crucial fact that the "metaphysical-theological" element of Benjamin's thought was older and more profound than the "materialistic" element.
A kid's movie about building blocks is, to me, inexplicably more profound about the state of ideas and independent thought than a real-life company that claims to be dollop out intelligence like an exceptionally erudite dinner lady.
Beyond the images worth of endless tattoo inspiration, World Atlas is jam-packed with historical tidbits and deep thoughts that could almost convince any prudish critic of a tattoo's more profound ramifications.
