Belief in form, but disbelief in content - that's what makes an aphorism charming.
There is no pre-established harmony between the furtherance of truth and the well-being of mankind.
The charm of the Platonic mode of thought ... consisted precisely in the resistance to the obvious evidence of the senses.
Every word has its fragrance: there is a harmony and a disharmony of fragrances, and hence of words.
It is certainly not the least charm of a theory that it is refutable.