Where I am not understood, it shall be concluded that something very useful and profound is couched underneath.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
In art and music, particularly in the 20th century, there was a big period there where for something to be called profound you had to not be able to understand it.
Profound subject matter can be encompassed in small space - for proof, look at any sonnet by Shakespeare!
Sometimes the simplest things are the most profound.
Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.
The most profound things are inexpressible.
To unfold the secret laws and relations of those high faculties of thought by which all beyond the merely perceptive knowledge of the world and of ourselves is attained or matured, is a object which does not stand in need of commendation to a rational mind.
Clearness ornaments profound thoughts.
This is the great object held out by this association; and the means of attaining it is illumination, enlightening the understanding by the sun of reason which will dispell the clouds of superstition and of prejudice.
Intellectual comradeship requires that you think your thoughts through to the place where you can make the complex seem simple, the obscure quite clear.
Mystery is not profoundness.