Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart's blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink.
Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart's blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink.
Aphorisms are thoughts one might have ... expressed ... by someone recognizably wiser than oneself.
He who writes in blood and aphorisms does not want to be read, he wants to be learned by heart.
Character,' says Novalis, in one of his questionable aphorisms character is destiny.
Maxims and aphorisms, let us remember that wisdom is the true salt of literature, and the books that are most nourishing are richly stored with it, and that is the main object to seek in reading books.
There are aphorisms that, like airplanes, stay up only while they are in motion.
The hunter for aphorisms on human nature has to fish in muddy water, and he is even condemned to find much of his own mind.
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.
Aphorisms are portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feeling.
In the mountains the shortest way is from peak to peak but for that, one must have long legs. Aphorisms should be peaks.
The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other well.
Someone who can write aphorisms should not fritter away his time in essays.
Aphorisms are salted not sugared almonds at Reasons Feast.
Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism.
Aphorisms are the true form of the universal philosophy.
Aphorisms are bad for novels. They stick in the reader's teeth.
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