Quotes of: Aphorism Keyword

Wenn man einmal das Böse bei sich aufgenommen hat, verlangt es nicht mehr, daß man ihm glaube.

The Zürau Aphorisms

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.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

The rationalist imagines an imbecile-free society; the empiricist and imbecile-proof one, or even better, a rationalist-proof one.

The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

What I learned on my own I still remember

The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

¿El arte de amar ? Saber unir el temperamento de un vampiro y la discreción de una anémona.

All Gall Is Divided: Aphorisms

Every pain is repeated in other places and other lives, every joy is repeated in other places and other lives.

Aphorisms of a Restless Soul

I sell my time to get enough money to buy it back.

Interglacial: New and Selected Poems & Aphorisms

My premise is that the popular aphorism that 'all religions are fundamentally the same and only superficially different' simply is not true. It is more correct to say that all religions are, at best, superficially similar but fundamentally different.

Ravi Zacharias

Aphorisms are food for thought - like sushi, they come in small portions that are both delicious and exquisitely formed. And, like sushi, I can never get enough.

James Geary

I collect axioms, paradoxes, maxims, teaching stories, proverbs, and aphorisms of all sorts, because I love to see complex ideas distilled into a few words.

Gretchen Rubin

Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart's blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink.

F. H. Bradley

(Emerson's) aphorisms tend to be chicken soup for the academic soul or gobledygook of a man who prefers the sounds of words to their meanings.

Love

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.

Essays and Aphorisms

The imagination of the genius vastly surpasses his intellect; the intellect of the academic vastly surpasses his imagination

The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

My biggest problem with modernity may lie in the growing separation of the ethical and the legal

The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

A prophet is not someone with special visions, just someone blind to most of what others see

The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

The classical man's worst fear was inglorious death; the modern man's worst fear is just death

The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love; close enough on the surface but, to the nonsucker, not exactly the same thing

The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

Those who do not think that employment is systemic slavery are either blind or employed.

The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

Modernity: we created youth without heroism, age without wisdom, and life without grandeur

The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

Friendship knows no color, nationality, race and social level,
 friendship knows no age and gender,
 friendship knows no distance.


Aphorisms of a Restless Soul