#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. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#ambition #among #aphorism #book #does

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

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

— Saki

#edwardian #humor #humor

There is music you never hear unless you play it yourself. ↗

— Marty Rubin

#inspirational #music #inspirational

I got a note from my father, who said that Success is wonderful, if you don't inhale. That was his own aphorism, and I think it's the very best thing he could have said to me or anyone else on the subject. ↗

— Sam Waterston

#aphorism #best #could #else #father

Few things are more absurd than wise saws originally designed to inculcate or maintain the social needs of a society long past - when they are applied to today. ↗

— Idries Shah

#big-picture #lack-of-knowledge #lack-of-perspective #rigidity #design

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 shortest distance between two points is always under construction. ↗

— Rebecca McClanahan

#life #life

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