#profundity

[floofshy]

"an egg will spill from your pocket, but if you compact it until it is the size of a fly, it is one of the most powerful pocket items" - a metaphor told to me in a dream, sounding profound but forgetting that metaphors shouldn't just make up details of how everyday items work.

[grayrazor]

Ships of Dac.

[stoicmike]

I have no intention of being profound and playing mind games — I would like to be useful. -- Michael Lipsey

[frequentpondcrosser]

“Those who know they are profound strive for clarity. Those who would like to seem profound to the crowd strive for obscurity. For the crowd believes that, if it cannot see to the bottom of something, it must be profound.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

[thatwhichdoesnotsuffer]

Whoever knows he is deep, strives for clarity; whoever would like to appear deep to the crowd, strives for obscurity. For the crowd considers anything deep if only it cannot see to the bottom: the crowd is so timid and afraid of going into the water.

Friedrich Nietzsche

[quotelr]

Quite possibly, the purpose of the universe is to provide a congenial home for self-conscious creatures who can ask profound questions and who can probe the nature of the universe itself.

Owen Gingerich

[elizabethanism]

'The profundity we assign to certain states of mind is due solely to their remoteness from the state of normal life, not to their proximity to very important and recondite things.'

Paul Valery - Analects

[nobeerreviews]

There is profundity to explore, but also laundry to do.

– Bruce Feiler