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Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?

— Saint Augustine

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.

— Ezra Pound

Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.

— Andre Malraux

One of the things I wanted to introduce in The Same Sea beyond transcending the conflict, is the fact that deep down below all our secrets are the same.

— Amos Oz

What God wants is to reveal himself more fully to us.

— Steven Curtis Chapman

There are many secrets in us, in the depths of our souls, that we don't want anyone to know about.

— Charles Durning

I think that man has a fundamental obligation to extract from himself and from the earth all that it can give; and this obligation is all the more imperative that we are absolutely ignorant of what limits - they may still be very distant - God has imposed on our natural understanding and power.

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

God is to me the Great Unknown. I believe in Him, but I find Him not.

— Adoniram Judson

✗Opposing Perspectives

There are no hidden depths to me.

— Charles Saatchi

Once a profound truth has been seen, it cannot be 'unseen'. There's no 'going back' to the person you were. Even if such a possibility did exist... why would you want to?

— Dave Sim

I am a man, and God is hiding from us humans. We are unable to see Him, we can only search for Him.

— Friedrich Durrenmatt