Sometimes a concept is baffling not because it is profound but because it is wrong.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
A wrong concept misleads the understanding; a wrong deed degrades the whole man, and may eventually demolish the structure of the human ego.
That's the way it is with poetry: When it is incomprehensible it seems profound, and when you understand it, it is only ridiculous.
We live in a society that compels us to go on using these concepts, and we no longer know what they mean.
To the extent that philosophical positions both confuse us and close doors to further inquiry, they are likely to be wrong.
It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths.
I've said this before - and I mean it strongly - an abstract concept or a moral issue has to be connected to feeling. If we don't believe it somehow viscerally, we don't really take it in.
There is real confusion about what it means to be right and wrong - the difference between what spiritual beliefs are and what science is.
Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.
Mystery is not profoundness.
The more uncompromisingly specific you are the more you end up touching the bigger universal truths.