Aphorism Quotes (516 quotes)

“The flame that burns Twice as bright burns half as long.”
― Lao Tzu, Te Tao Ching

tags: aphorism, philosophy, proverb

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“There is truth in wine and children”
― Plato, Symposium / Phaedrus

tags: aphorism

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“That which yields is not always weak.”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Dart

tags: aphorism, flexibility

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“If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

tags: aphorism, self-reliance

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“Necessity is the mother of invention.”
― Plato

tags: aphorism

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“All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why.”
― James Thurber

tags: aphorism, inspirational

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“Melancholy: an appetite no misery satisfies.”
― Emil Cioran, All Gall Is Divided: Aphorisms

tags: aphorism, melancholy, misery, syllogism

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“It's only words... unless they're true.”
― David Mamet

tags: aphorism, language, truth

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“Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window”
― Steve Wozniak

tags: aphorism, computer

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“I have forgotten my umbrella. ”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: aphorism, derrida, interpretation, philosophy

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“Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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“The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple.”
― Rebecca West

tags: aphorism

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“If a man has his eyes bound, you can encourage him as much as you like to stare through the bandage, but he'll never see anything.”
― Franz Kafka, The Castle

tags: aphorism, existential, life-lessons, motivational

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“The shortest distance between two points is always under construction. ”
― Rebecca McClanahan

tags: aphorism, life

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“There is music you never hear unless you play it yourself.”
― Marty Rubin

tags: aphorism, inspirational, music

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“Some people talk about other people’s failures with so much pleasure that you would swear they are talking about their own successes.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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“To be clever in the afternoon argues that one is dining nowhere in the evening.”
― Saki, Reginald

tags: aphorism, edwardian, humor

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“What you choose also chooses you.”
― Kamand Kojouri

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

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“A relationship is likely to last way longer, if each partner convinces or has convinced themselves that they do not deserve their partner, even if that is not true.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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“Looking but not seeing is the hearing but not understanding of the eye.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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“The slope contains many wonders not found at the summit.”
― Marty Rubin

tags: aphorism, inspirational, philosophy

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“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

tags: aphorism, hedgehog

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“You cannot be truly humble, unless you truly believe that life can and will go on without you.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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“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.”
― William Penn

tags: aphorism

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“Laughter is the antidote to existential pain”
― S. Spencer Baker, Slabscape: Reset

tags: aphorism, humour, pain, philosophy

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“The magic of fiction lies in deluding reason that it is fiction.”
― Róbert Gál, Signs & Symptoms

tags: aphorism

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“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, The Lost Gate

tags: aphorism, mockery, sentiment

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“Most sane human beings’ chances of being alive in a thousand years’ time are a hundred times higher than their chances of being sincerely happy for at least ten consecutive days.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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“We say sound things when we do not strive to say to say extraordinary ones.”
― Comte de Lautréamont, Maldoror and the Complete Works

tags: aphorism

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