Quotes about aphorism
inspirational aphorism wells
The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other well. Elias Canetti
ambition among aphorism book forms master says sentences ten
The aphorism in which I am the first master among Germans, are the forms of ''eternity''; my ambition is to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book -- what everyone else does not say in a book.
past remember aphorism
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.
aphorism bite establish exact finger maybe relates routine simply ten time until
It wasn't until I had been writing on and off for maybe ten years that I started to establish any kind of routine, thought I couldn't put a finger on an exact date, and this routine relates simply to the aphorism 'How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time.' Neal Asher
aphorism capital chose dirty foreground greedy ideology man mankind money path precisely punishing sacred salvation searching shows societies society sorts suicide tainted true understand ways
The societies of the futures, always searching for salves, will be so greedy to have this capital which is the man, that they will find all sorts of dirty ways to religiously or culturally brutify him and even severely punishing him if he would chose suicide or the ideology that shows the true path of salvation of the mankind through itself. Precisely because they will understand that the Man is the World and the World is the Man! This aphorism will be the one that will be in the foreground on the backgrounds tainted by all these murders of the money of this society which will be the antechamber of the society of the Sacred Self.
home aphorism particular
An aphorism is a generalization of sorts, and our present-day writers seem more at home with the particular. Anatole Broyard
sticks teeth aphorism
Aphorisms are bad for novels. They stick in the reader's teeth.
wisdom aphorism
APHORISM, n. Predigested wisdom. Ambrose Bierce
language slave aphorism
What are your Axioms, and Categories, and Systems, and Aphorisms? Words, words.... Be not the slave of Words... Thomas Carlyle
privacy aphorism posing
An aphorism is a personal observation inflated into a universal truth, a private posing as a general. Stefan Kanfer
half aphorism
An apt aphorism half kills, half immortalizes. Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
research aphorism used
Beware of finding what you're looking for. A favorite aphorism he often used. Richard Hamming
law enforcement aphorism
Law cannot reach where enforcement will not follow. —Popular aphorism. Jack Vance
philosophical evil aphorism
Beyond Good and Evil, Aphorism 153 Friedrich Nietzsche
girl may aphorism
Always be civil to the girls, you never know who they may marry, Nancy Mitford
littles aphorism soreness
An aphorism should be like a burr: sting, ... and leave a little soreness.... Irving Layton
ambitious aphorism charged embarked figure physical poetry series stark
By 2000, he had embarked on an ambitious series of figure paintings, usually captioned with an aphorism from poetry or philosophy, and charged with stark physical and metaphysical deliberations.
aphorism danger small states trying
It's the danger of the aphorism that it states too much in trying to be small
laughing would-be aphorism
If we couldn't laugh at ourselves, that would be the end of everything. Niels Bohr
nerd definitions aphorism
My best definition of a nerd: someone who asks you to explain an aphorism Nassim Nicholas Taleb
character destiny aphorism
'Character," says Novalis, in one of his questionable aphorisms - character is destiny'. George Eliot
believe firsts aphorism
I believe aphorisms are best when first read in the wild, free from the confines of any categories. James Geary
aphorism genuine fixed
An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience. F. H. Bradley
belief charming aphorism
Belief in form, but disbelief in content - that's what makes an aphorism charming.
forgotten aphorism umbrella
I have forgotten my umbrella.
teeth aphorism worn
A good aphorism is too hard for the tooth of time, and is not worn away by all the centuries, although it serves as food for every epoch.
aphorism
In an aphorism, aptness counts for more than truth. Mason Cooley
wise aphorism considering
Aphorisms have never seduced anybody, but they have fooled some into considering themselves worldly-wise.
doe aphorism score
An aphorism that does not score is just one more sentence.
way slides aphorism
The aphorism: a platitude that swerves, or slides all the way around.
aphorism angle structure
Aphorisms know the angles, but not the structure.
may aphorism
Aphorisms may equivocate, but they must not wobble.
aphorism pins let-me
The haiku lets meaning float; the aphorism pins it down.