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Tag Name "Aphorism" (70)

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Aphorisms should be peaks - and those who are addressed, tall and lofty. The air thin and pure, danger near, and the spirit full of gay sarcasm: these go well together.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Aphorisms are literature's hand luggage. Light and compact, they fit easily into the overhead compartment of your brain.
James Geary
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APHORISM, n. Predigested wisdom.
Ambrose Bierce
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Aphorisms are the true form of the universal philosophy.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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Aphorisms are bad for novels. They stick in the reader's teeth.
Anatole Broyard
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Aphorisms may equivocate, but they must not wobble.
Mason Cooley
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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.
W. H. Auden
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Aphorisms are portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feeling.
William Rounseville Alger
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Aphorism, n.: A concise, clever statement you don’t think of until too late.
James Alexander Thom
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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
Ambrose Bierce
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What are your Axioms, and Categories, and Systems, and Aphorisms? Words, words.... Be not the slave of Words.
Thomas Carlyle
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There are aphorisms that, like airplanes, stay up only while they are in motion.
Vladimir Nabokov
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An aphorism is a mental exercise, psychical, logical, linguistic, spiritual, ritual, emotional and rational, it is a major conceptual and literary activity, a mixture of prose and poetry that conveys, in addition to ideology, sympathy or antipathy.
William C. Brown
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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.
William C. Brown
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The best aphorisms are.... portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feeling. They furnish the largest amount of intellectual stimulus and nutriment in the smallest compass. About every weak point in human nature, or vicious spot in human life, there is deposited a crystallization of warning and protective proverbs.
William Rounseville Alger
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I lost many literary battles the day I read 'Their Eyes Were Watching God.' I had to concede that occasionally aphorisms have their power. I had to give up the idea that Keats had a monopoly on the lyrical.
Zadie Smith
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Always be civil to the girls, you never know who they may marry' is a aphorism which has saved many an English spinster from being treated like an Indian widow.
Nancy Mitford
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We have the highest authority for believing that the meek shall inherit the earth though I have never found any particular corroboration of this aphorism in the records of Somerset House.
F. E. Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead
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Most of my writing consists of an attempt to translate aphorisms into continuous prose.
Northrop Frye
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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.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Beware of finding what you're looking for. A favorite aphorism he often used.
Richard Hamming
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Belief in form, but disbelief in content - that's what makes an aphorism charming.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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An aphorism is a single sentence that totally exhausts its subject.
Robert Breault
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The excellence of aphorisms consists not so much in the expression of some rare or abstruse sentiment, as in the comprehension of some useful truth in a few words.
Samuel Johnson
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