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Letter "A" » aphorism
«An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience»
«It's the danger of the aphorism that it states too much in trying to be small»
«We endeavor to stuff the universe into the gullet of an aphorism»
«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 in which I am the first master among Germans, are the forms of ''eternity''; my ambition is to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book -- what everyone else does not say in a book.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
aphorism, aphorisms, everyone else, Germans, sentences, The Forms
«An aphorism never coincides with the truth: it is either a half-truth or one-and-a-half truths.»
Author: Karl Kraus
(Critic, Journalist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
aphorism, aphorisms, coincides, half-truth
«One cannot dictate an aphorism to a typist. It would take too long.»
Author: Karl Kraus
(Critic, Journalist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
aphorism, aphorisms, dictate, typist
«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»
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(Critic, Philosopher, Poet)
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Science
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abstract, aphorism, aphorisms, exclusively, largest, portion, sciences, worthiest
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