#aphorism

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

#humor #philosophy #dreams

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

— W.M. Driscoll

#art

Men and the world are mutually toxic to each other. ↗

— Philip K. Dick

#men

Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer ↗

— Sun Tzu

#sun-tzu #enemy

That which yields is not always weak. ↗

— Jacqueline Carey

#flexibility #weakness

We endeavor to stuff the universe into the gullet of an aphorism. ↗

— Paul Eldridge

#endeavor #into #stuff #universe

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

— Thomas Stockmann; Thomas Stockman

#majority #nietzche #freedom

Whether you live to be 50 or 100 makes no difference, if you made no difference in the world. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#funny-quotes #humor-quotes #inspirational #iving #making-a-difference

Embrace aging. ↗

— Mitch Albom

#aphorisms #age

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

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#art #complete #entirely #hedgehog #isolated