Profundity Quotes

The discipline of suffering, of great suffering- do you not know that only this discipline has created all enhancements of man so far? That tension of the soul in unhappiness which cultivates its strength, its shudders face to face with great ruin, its inventiveness and courage in enduring, preserving, interpreting, and exploiting suffering, and whatever has been granted to it of profundity, secret, mask, spirit, cunning, greatness - was it not granted to it through suffering, through the discipline of great suffering?

Profundity of thought belongs to youth, clarity of thought to old age.

The qualities of a great man are vision, integrity, courage, understanding, the power of articulation, and profundity of character.