Aphorism Quotes

Good morning, nightmare!

Ljupka Cvetanova

Happiness can not be prescribed, postponed or preserved.Relish its unpredictability. Cherish its exclusivity. Accept its brevity. But above all savour its delicious exquisiteness. Do not let it go cold!

Life is like a cup of coffee: The more avidly you drink of it, the sooner you reach the dregs.

To come up with one great sentence, one needs to serve a life sentence.

A good night's sleep counts healthy sheep.

Death defines life. I'd rather stay undefined.

What light is to the outer physical world intellect is to the inner world of consciousness. For intellect is related to the will, and thus also to the organism which is nothing other than will regarded objectively, in the approximate same way as light is to a combustible body and the oxygen in combination with which it ignites.

Arthur Schopenhauer

The most dangerous enemy of truth and freedom among us is the compact majority. Yes, the damned, compact, liberal majority...

Thomas Stockman

A journal takes the place of a confidant, that is, of friend or wife; it becomes a substitute for production, a substitute for country and public. It is a grief-cheating device, a mode of escape and withdrawal; but, factotum as it is, though it takes the place of everything, properly speaking it represents nothing at all...

Henri-Frédéric Amiel

Please be my friend.

kevin mcpherson eckhoff

The eleventh commandment of art: thou shalt not be boring.

Hindoo wisdom long ago regarded the world as the dream of Brahma. Must we hold with Fichte that it is the individual dream of each individual ego? Every fool would then be a cosmogonic poet producing the firework of the universe under the dome of the infinite.

Henri-Frédéric Amiel

All Excess is ill: But Drunkenness is of the worst Sort.

Wear none of thine own Chains; but keep free, whilst thou art free.

Eko brushed a tear from her eye, and Immo jeered at her, but father held up a hand. "Never mock a tender heart," he said.

Orson Scott Card

A man who wears a fragrant flower on his collar spreads a perfume wherever he goes. (141)

I will never do this, says one, yet does it: I am resolved to do this, says another; but flags upon second Thoughts: Or does it, tho’ awkwardly, for his Word’s sake: As if it were worse to break his Word, than to do amiss in keeping it.

The business of wretches is wretched even in guarantee giving.

Homer

What I say will be a bit of boasting. The mad wine tells me to do it. Wine sets even a thoughtful man to singing, or sets him into softly laughing, sets him to dancing. Sometimes it tosses out a word that was better unspoken.

Homer

There's nothing quite like turning the page.

The harder life is for a man when he is young, the easier it will be in the future.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Prohibition is to abstain from intoxicating liquor, as it makes us morbid and sometimes drunk. But we get drunk every day, nevertheless, not so much by the strength of what we sip from the cup, but that which we eat, the water we drink, and the air we inhale, which at fermentation conspire at eventide to make us so drunk and tired that we lose control of ourselves and fall asleep. Everybody is a drunkard, and if we were to enforce real prohibition we should all be dead.

wash off the journey

There are 31.536.000 seconds in a year. I am counting down every second.

Ljupka Cvetanova

Of the spirit of women. - The spiritual power of a woman is best demonstrated by her sacrificing her own spirit to that of a man out of love of him and of his spirit but then, despite this sacrifice, immediately evolving _a new spirit_ within the new domain, originally alien to her nature, to which the man's disposition impels her. (from Assorted Opinions & Maxims 272)-- This is the first time among years of reading Nietzsche that i agree with his words on women: this aphorism captures a few quintessences of true and gallant womanhood, namely the will(ingness) to sacrifice (not only to others but also to the necessity that arises in a context), the balance between creative and reactive, the free-spiritedness out of such balance without conceit and swagger, and the malleability/fluidity without blind submission. (It is momentous to note that the man-woman dynamic is not binary, and that man/womanhood is not a given in one's biology - it's more something that evolves in a person over time.)

Friedrich Nietzsche

I am not the potter, not the potter's wheel, but the potter's clay; is not the value of the shape attained as dependent upon the intrinsic worth of the clay as upon the wheel and the Master's skill?

Almost everything we call "higher culture" is based on the spiritualization of cruelty.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I keep having the same experience and keep resisting it every time. I do not want to believe it although it is palpable: the great majority of people lacks an intellectual conscience. Indeed, it has often seemed to me as if anyone calling for an intellectual conscience were as lonely in the most densely populated cities as if he were in a desert. Everybody looks at you with strange eyes and goes right on handling his scales, calling this good and that evil. Nobody even blushes when you intimate that their weights are underweight; nor do people feel outraged; they merely laugh at your doubts. I mean: the great majority of people does not consider it contemptible to believe this or that and to live accordingly, without first having given themselves an account of the final and most certain reasons pro and con, and without even troubling themselves about such reasons afterward: the most gifted men and the noblest women still belong to this "great majority." But what is goodheartedness, refinement, or genius to me, when the person who has these virtues tolerates slack feelings in his faith and judgments and when he does not account the desire for certainty as his inmost craving and deepest distress—as that which separates the higher human beings from the lower.Among some pious people I found a hatred of reason and was well disposed to them for that; for this at least betrayed their bad intellectual conscience. But to stand in the midst of this rerum concordia discors and of this whole marvelous uncertainty and rich ambiguity of existence without questioning, without trembling with the craving and the rapture of such questioning, without at least hating the person who questions, perhaps even finding him faintly amusing—that is what I feel to be contemptible, and this is the feeling for which I look first in everybody. Some folly keeps persuading me that every human being has this feeling, simply because he is human. This is my type of injustice.

Friedrich Nietzsche

We say sound things when we do not strive to say to say extraordinary ones.

Comte de Lautréamont

Beware of finding what you're lookin

Richard Hamming

An aphorism needn't be true, but it should sound true.

The Vine of Life grows a single melon. The color of the heart is unknown until the rind is split.

There is truth in wine and children

Plato

That which yields is not always weak.

Jacqueline Carey

If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

Napoléon Bonaparte

Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window

The shortest distance between two points is always under construction.

Rebecca McClanahan

To be clever in the afternoon argues that one is dining nowhere in the evening.

Saki

An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog.

Friedrich Schlegel

All Excess is ill: But Drunkenness is of the worst Sort. It spoils Health, dismounts the Mind, and unmans Men: It reveals Secrets, is Quarrelsome, Lascivious, Impudent, Dangerous and Mad. In fine, he that is drunk is not a Man: Because he is so long void of Reason, that distinguishes a Man from a Beast.

The magic of fiction lies in deluding reason that it is fiction.

It is the curse of the competent―not to be called upon.

Minimalism is a way of living at the maximum of your potential.

Anastasiya Kotelnikova

Melancholy: an appetite no misery satisfies.

People who talk too much are tiresome, especially those who are not informative, thought-provoking, or funny.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Where there is a smoke, there is an ecologist.

Ljupka Cvetanova

The only way to fight nostalgia is to listen to somebody else's nostalgia

Life corrects the errors of logic.

It takes two to bribe.

Ljupka Cvetanova

Men can go to hell! Iâ€™ll meet them there.

Ljupka Cvetanova

A coward is a servant of his fears.A hero enslaves his fears.

I sheep's idea of bravery : To become a wolf's pet.

Ljupka Cvetanova

People who smile while they are alone used to be called insane, until we invented smartphones and social media.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I believe instinct's the iron skeleton under all our ideas of free will. Unless you're willing to take the pipe or eat the gun or take a long walk off a short dock, you can't say no to some things. You can't refuse to pick up your option because there is no option.

-Truly, freeing oneself in one’s own mind is only the first step on a path of freedom.-

Mark Alberto Yoder Nunez

While the truth is putting on its shoes, the lie becomes a champion of a long-distance running.

Ljupka Cvetanova

Don't draw the line before stupidity. It'll take it as a start.

Ljupka Cvetanova

To many people chess is an extreme sport. It requires thinking.

Ljupka Cvetanova

A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words.

Answers were always important, but they were seldom easy.

Patrick Rothfuss

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