Aphorism Quotes
An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog.
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.
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.
The aphorism is cultivated only by those who have known fear in the midst of words, that fear of collapsing with all the words.
An aphorism is a personal observation inflated into a universal truth, a private posing as a general.
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
We have oftener than once endeavoured to attach some meaning to that aphorism, vulgarly imputed to Shaftesbury, which however we can find nowhere in his works, that "ridicule is the test of truth."
The history of Western science confirms the aphorism that the great menace to progress is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge.
The aphorism "Whatever is, is right," would be as final as it is lazy, did it not include the troublesome consequence that nothing that ever was, was wrong.
The trick to writing an aphorism is to place a period at the point where you're inclined to say, "in other words.
A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words.
Most of my writing consists of an attempt to translate aphorisms into continuous prose.
The First Aphorism of Religion Cases: Only the religious convictions of other people are weird. Yours are perfectly rational.
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.
Belief in form, but disbelief in content - that's what makes an aphorism charming.
'Character," says Novalis, in one of his questionable aphorisms - character is destiny'.
One of the aphorisms occurred to me now and I wrote it under the picture: "Fate and temperament are two words for one and the same concept." That was clear to me now.
An aphorism is a generalization of sorts, and our present-day writers seem more at home with the particular.
Santayana's aphorism must be reversed: too often it is those who can remember the past who are condemned to repeat it.
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.
