Quotes by Aphorism The striking aphorism requires a stricken aphorist. Alfred Polgar aphorism APHORISM, n. Predigested wisdom. Ambrose Bierce aphorism wisdom Aphorisms are bad for novels. They stick in the reader's teeth. Anatole Broyard aphorism teeth sticks An aphorism is a generalization of sorts, and our present-day writers seem more at home with the particular. Anatole Broyard aphorism particular home 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 remember past The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other well. Elias Canetti aphorism wells inspirational The aphorism is cultivated only by those who have known fear in the midst of words, that fear of collapsing with all the words. Emile M. Cioran aphorism midst known An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience. F. H. Bradley aphorism genuine fixed Belief in form, but disbelief in content - that's what makes an aphorism charming. Friedrich Nietzsche aphorism charming belief 'Character," says Novalis, in one of his questionable aphorisms - character is destiny'. George Eliot aphorism destiny character Beyond Good and Evil, Aphorism 153 Friedrich Nietzsche aphorism philosophical evil 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 aphorism teeth century I have forgotten my umbrella. Friedrich Nietzsche umbrella aphorism forgotten 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. Hermann Hesse aphorism fate two An aphorism Irving Layton aphorism should littles Law cannot reach where enforcement will not follow. —Popular aphorism. Jack Vance aphorism enforcement law I believe aphorisms are best when first read in the wild, free from the confines of any categories. James Geary aphorism believe firsts An aphorism is a generalization, therefore not modern. John Fowles generalization aphorism modern 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." John Keats aphorism tests truth An aphorism is never exactly true; it is either a half-truth or one-and-a-half truths. Karl Kraus aphorism half truth 123»