#profundity

Ships of Dac.

“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

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.

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.

'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.'

"It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men."