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  • How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism.

    Truth   Thinking   Firsts  
  • An aphorism is the last link in a long chain of thought.

    Long   Links   Lasts  
    "Aphorisms". Book by Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, 1880-1893.
  • The striking aphorism requires a stricken aphorist.

  • Belief in form, but disbelief in content - that's what makes an aphorism charming.

  • Young people of high school age can actually feel themselves changing. Progress is almost tangible. It's exciting. It stimulates more progress. Nevertheless, growth is not constant and smooth. Erik Erikson quotes an aphorism to describe the formless forming of it. "I ain't what I ought to be. I ain't what I'm going to be, but I'm not what I was.

    School   People   Growth  
  • Age certainly hadn't conferred any smarts on me. Character maybe, but mediocrity is a constant, as one Russian writer put it. Russian writers have a way with aphorisms. They probably spend all winter thinking them up.

    FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Sep 25, 2015
  • APHORISM, n. Predigested wisdom. The flabby wine-skin of his brain Yields to some pathologic strain, And voids from its unstored abysm The driblet of an aphorism. "The Mad Philosopher," 1697

    Wine   Yield   Mad  
    Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2356, Delphi Classics
  • All of us encounter, at least once in our life, some individual who utters words that make us think forever. There are men whose phrases are oracles; who condense in one sentence the secrets of life; who blurt out an aphorism that forms a character or illustrates an existence.

    Benjamin Disraeli (1844). “Coningsby: Or, The New Generation”, p.114, London : H. Colburn
  • Be realistic, demand the impossible!

  • We often feel that a clever aphorism captures a truth that would require pages to defend in any other way.

    Clever   Pages   Way  
    Steven Pinker (2009). “How the Mind Works”, p.549, W. W. Norton & Company
  • The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.

    'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 1, sc. 3, l. [99]
  • Aphorism, n.: A concise, clever statement you don’t think of until too late.

  • An aphorism is an extreme synthesis of thesis and antithesis, theory and practice, it's a mixture of intuition and observation, hypothesis and illusions of certainty and probability, history and stupidity.

  • If you mean to know yourself, interline such of these aphorisms as affect you agreeably in reading, and set a mark to such as left a sense of uneasiness with you; and then show your copy to whom you please.

    "Aphorisms on Man" by Johann Kaspar Lavater, (c. 1788).
  • 'Character," says Novalis, in one of his questionable aphorisms - character is destiny'.

    The Mill on the Floss bk. 6, ch. 6 (1860)
  • My best definition of a nerd: someone who asks you to explain an aphorism

    Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms”, p.109, Random House
  • An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog.

    Art   Literature   World  
    "Aphorisms from the Athenaeum" by Friedrich Schlegel, #206, 1798.
  • What are your Axioms, and Categories, and Systems, and Aphorisms? Words, words.... Be not the slave of Words.

    Thomas Carlyle (1831). “Sartor Resartus: The life and opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in three books: By Thomas Carlyle”, p.36
  • A sentimental aphorism is even more a surprise than a hard- boiled sonnet.

  • A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

    'Sebastian Melmoth' (1905) p. 12. Oscariana (1910) p. 8
  • Aphorisms are essentially an aristocratic genre of writing. The aphorist does not argue or explain, he asserts; and implicit in his assertion is a conviction that he is wiser and more intelligent than his readers.

  • One cannot dictate an aphorism to a typist. It would take too long.

    Long   Aphorism  
    Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”
  • Euphonic and harmonious expressions, forcible and just expressions, profound and comprehensive expressions, and especially apt and witty expressions, each have their specific influence upon different minds, and their common influence upon all minds.... It is therefore high time our most valuable aphorisms and paragraphs were put in order for frequent perusal, and for handy reference, as the circumstances of life call up subjects.

    Charles Simmons (1852). “Laconic Manual and Brief Remarker”, p.3
  • The First Aphorism of Religion Cases: Only the religious convictions of other people are weird. Yours are perfectly rational.

  • An aphorism is not an aphorism unless you know what it means.

    Mean   Aphorism   Knows  
  • Santayana's aphorism must be reversed: too often it is those who can remember the past who are condemned to repeat it.

    ARTHUR M> SCHLESINGER, JR. (1967). “THE BITTER HERITAGE VIETNAM AND AMERICAN DEMOCRACY 1941-1966”
  • An aphorism? Fire without flames. Understandable that no one tries to warm himself at it.

    Flames   Fire   Trying  
    "The Trouble With Being Born". Book by Emil Cioran, 1973.
  • If we couldn't laugh at ourselves, that would be the end of everything.

  • Alan Kay's famous aphorism is that perspective is worth 80 IQ points. An innovative insight is not the product of an individual's brilliance. It's not as if innovators' heads are wired in different ways. Innovation typically comes from looking at the world through a slightly different lens.

  • An aphorism is a synthesis of poetry and prose, it is a narrative precipitate, a didactic parable, an ideological concept, in practice it 's compressed and zipped philosophy . It is literature that adapts itself to the digital age.

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