Quotes with aphorism

  • 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.

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  • Karl Kraus An aphorism can never be the whole truth; it is either a half-truth or a truth-and-a-half.
    Karl Kraus
    Austrian writer and journalist (1874 - 1936)
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  • Friedrich von Schlegel 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 von Schlegel
    German man of letters and art critic (1772 - 1829)
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  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge 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.
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    English poet and critic (1772 - 1834)
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  • Edward Bulwer-Lytton 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.
    Edward Bulwer-Lytton
    English writer and poet (1803 - 1873)
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  • Bruce Lee The aphorism as a man thinketh in his heart so is he contains the secret of life.
    Striking Thoughts (2000) p. 4; Lee here quotes Proverbs 23:7 As he thinketh
    Bruce Lee
    Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist (1940 - 1973)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche 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
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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