But vain to popularize profundities, and all truth is profound.
Being rich or famous is the only profound thing that some people have ever said.
(n.) The quality or state of being profound; depth of place, knowledge, feeling, etc.
Chasms are deceived by rumors of their depth.
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.
A thought, even a possibility, can shatter and transform us.
Ask a true scientist a very profound question on his science, and he will besilent. Ask a true religious person a very simple question on his religion, and he will be frenzied.
Most of us move through life with little chance to learn much about ourselves. We know some things we like and some things we dislike, we have a few ideas about what makes us happy, and we die in igno...