Aphorism Quotes - page 2

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. (Friedrich Nietzsche)
An aphorism can be considered a logically completed thought, accepted from the point of view of its meaning for the expression of new sensations, knowledge and meanings. View quote
Zafar Mirzo
It is another aphorism that no ones knows everything about anything. That need not dull the pleasure and fascination of the fact that a great deal is known about some things. View quote
George Gaylord Simpson
It wasn't until I had been writing on and off for maybe ten years that I started to establish any kind of routine, thought I couldn't put a finger on an exact date, and this routine relates simply to the aphorism 'How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time.' View quote
Neal Asher
Both the aphorism and the poem channel man's wild impulse to escape the systems another part of him has so carefully constructed. View quote
Clifton Fadiman
An aphorism can contain only as much wisdom as overstatement will permit. View quote
Clifton Fadiman
A transposable aphorism is a malaise of the urge to be witty, or in other words, a maxim that is untroubled by the fact that the opposite of what it says is equally true so long as it appears to be funny. View quote
Umberto Eco
[Stating a variation to William Blake's aphorism] When you open the doors of perception, you can see things as they are -- horrible. View quote
Michael Savage
My premise is that the popular aphorism that 'all religions are fundamentally the same and only superficially different' simply is not true. It is more correct to say that all religions are, at best, superficially similar but fundamentally different. View quote
Ravi Zacharias
APHORISM, n. Predigested wisdom. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
There is, in fact, neither red, green nor yellow magic. There is "doing." Only "doing" is magic." Properly to realise the scale of what Gurdjieff meant by magic, one has to remember his continually repeated aphorism, "Only he who can be can do," and its corollary that, lacking this fundamental verb, nothing is "done," things simply "happen." (P. L. Travers)
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. View quote
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
War is most often a form of tyranny. It is best described by paraphrasing Trotsky's aphorism about the dialectic: "You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you." View quote
Leon Trotsky
One cannot dictate an aphorism to a typist. It would take too long. View quote
Karl Kraus
There is an aphorism about a farmer who before sunrise on a cold and misty morning, saw a huge beast on a distant hill. He seized his rifle and walked cautiously toward the ogre to head off an attack on his family. When he got nearer, he was relieved to find that the beast was only a small bear. He approached more confidently and when he was within a few hundred yards the distorting haze had lifted sufficiently so that he could recognize the figure as only that of a man. Lowering his rifle, he walked toward the stranger and discovered he was his brother. View quote
Louis Nizer
We endeavor to stuff the universe into the gullet of an aphorism. View quote
Paul Eldridge
Samuel Butler's famous aphorism that the chicken is only an egg's way of making another egg has been modernized: the organism is only DNA's way of making more DNA. View quote
E. O. Wilson
The Communist Party is the sworn inveterate enemy of the Socialist and Democratic Parties. When it associates with them, it does so as a preliminary to destroying them. There is an old German aphorism which says: "To cast an enemy out it is first necessary to embrace him." That is what the Communists mean when they ask for co-operation and alliance with the Socialists... The Communist does not look upon a Socialist as an ally in a common cause. He looks upon him as a dupe, as a temporary convenience, and as something to be thrust ruthlessly to one side when he has served his purpose. View quote
Aneurin Bevan
Santayana's aphorism must be reversed: too often it is those who can remember the past who are condemned to repeat it. View quote
Arthur M. Schlesinger