I wonder if one reason so many politicians are lawyers is that both professions are so intimately concerned with manipulating the Truth. A politician creates an image much as a lawyer builds a case in court, and people act on the basis of how convincing that image appears to them. There is a thin line between the profound and the trite. On its face, this is a pointless, even stupid statement which is totally divorced from a mature understanding of reality. Perhaps profundity or significance is a relational concept as well, only appreciable in the eye of the beholder.
All historical figures appear twice.
First as tragedy, second as farce. There is a third time, but we are too busy to notice Everything is relational. Of course, this is what twentieth century philosophers have been grappling with for years. But for me it is the third that is profound. I take it on a personal level as the essence of Judaism as a life-affirming religion.