Aphorisms

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• A Big Ego

  
  Maverick Philosopher — Authority: 563
  An inflated ego may manifest itself in ostentation, self-promotion, and domination of others.  But it is no less manifested by oversensitivity to the slights, real or imagined, of the ostentatious, the self-promoting, and the domineering.
  23 hours ago

• The Company You Keep

  
  Maverick Philosopher — Authority: 563
  You will be judged by the company you keep ___ and the company you keep away from.
  23 hours ago

• Antagonize Parsimoniously

  
  Maverick Philosopher — Authority: 563
  Do not multiply enemies beyond necessity.
  23 hours ago

• No Pun Intended

  
  Maverick Philosopher — Authority: 563
  Ah, but it had to have been intended because you were aware of it and let it stand. Otherwise you would not have uttered no pun intended.   The difference between pun intended and no pun intended  is merely verbal.
  1 day ago

• Young Scholar, Old Scholar

  
  Maverick Philosopher — Authority: 563
  The young scholar may pepper his prose with foreign expressions so as to appear erudite. But as the years pass, a different ideal may appear choice-worthy, namely, to write as simply as possible, using only the resources of the mother tongue.
  1 day ago

• My Holiday Gift to You #1

  
  Zoe Weil — Authority: 120
  To all of you who read my blog, I wanted to give you a holiday gift for each of the next four posts. My husband and I spent a weekend in Baxter State Park in Maine a year ago, and we made up riddles on our hikes based on well-known proverbs and aphorisms. It was a lot of fun, and for his birthday I put them together ...
  4 days ago

• why aphorisms are cynical

  
  clusterflock — Authority: 608
  A good single sentence saying can’t require background evidencing or further explanation. It must be instantly recognizable as true. It also needs to be news to the listener. Most single sentences that people can immediately verify as true they already believe . What’s left? One big answer is things that people ...
  4 days ago

• A Short Season of Aphorisms and Other Nonsense

  
  Raw Light — Authority: 109
  In the run up to Christmas, Ive decided it might be a fun idea to post up some short thoughts, aphorisms and, as I put it, other nonsense, on Raw Light: related to writing, hopefully, but the connection can be tenuous if necessary.If you have something to contribute in that way, and already know me in some vague ...
  6 days ago

• Aphorisms by ‘Solomon Slade’

  
  All Aphorisms, All the Time — Authority: 99
  ‘Solomon Slade’ is the pseudonym of an aphorist who has penned three hundred sayings ( Solomon’s 300, Maxims for the 21st Century) as a gift for family and friends this Christmas. Giving aphorisms as gifts is a dangerous business, since the wise words themselves are not always so festive. But Slade’s sayings ...
  1 week ago

• Choose Your Advisors Carefully

  
  Maverick Philosopher — Authority: 563
  The barber is hardly the one to ask whether you need a haircut.
  1 week ago

• Causes, Causation, the Uncaused

  
  Maverick Philosopher — Authority: 563
  The scientist wants to know what causes what; the philosophical analyst wants to know what causation is; the true philosopher wants to know the Uncaused.
  1 week ago

• Against Postponing Self-Mastery

  
  Maverick Philosopher — Authority: 563
  Wait too long to develop self-control and you may find that your vices have abandoned you before you have had a chance to abandon them. In divorces of all kinds it is better to be the one who sends packing rather than the one sent packing.
  1 week ago

• Aff-ability

  
  Maverick Philosopher — Authority: 563
  Success in this world often depends as much on affability as on ability.
  1 week ago

• A Double Standard

  
  Maverick Philosopher — Authority: 563
  The wrongs done us seem so real, so inexcusable, so unjust. But the wrongs done others by ourselves and by others appear in a less unfavorable light: not that important, excusable, and horribile dictu __ entertaining.
  1 week ago

• Affinità e Caffè

  
  cafeXperiment — Authority: 111
  Forse un piccolo dubbio l’ho avuto quando sono stato a casa sua e ho visto la moka del caffè nella credenza insieme ai piatti: chiaro segnale che non beveva caffè. Quelle case in cui si fa solo per gli ospiti, e quando succede, fa talmente schifo che se lo vuoi bere devi macchiarlo con qualsiasi cosa: latte, ...
  2 weeks ago

• badge of honor

  
  clusterflock — Authority: 608
  When I was growing up, in Ann Arbor, Mich., there was a little debate: Should school officials try to prevent black students from using the N-word? I don’t believe the issue was ever settled. And this brings up the question of whether “teabagger” could be kind of a conservative N-word : to be used in the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Kindness

  
  Maverick Philosopher — Authority: 563
  Small acts of kindness have the power to transfigure the bleak face of existence. While gratefully remembering the words and gestures I have been fortunate to receive, I also regret the occasions I let slip where, at no cost to myself, I could have offered a word of encouragement or support to someone in need.
  2 weeks ago

• Intellectual Hypertrophy

  
  Maverick Philosopher — Authority: 563
  Weight lifters and body builders in their advanced states of muscular development appear ridiculous to us. All that time and money spent on the grotesque overdevelopment of ones merely physical attributes  ___ when in a few short years one will be dust and ashes. But isnt the intellectual equally unbalanced who ...
  2 weeks ago

• Neither Angel Nor Beast

  
  Maverick Philosopher — Authority: 563
  Blaise Pascal, Pensées #329: Man is neither angel nor beast; and the misfortune is that he who would act the angel acts the beast. The first half of the thought is unexceptionable: man is indeed neither angel nor beast, but, amphibious as he is between matter and spirit, a hybrid and a riddle to himself. ...
  2 weeks ago

• Gerede

  
  Maverick Philosopher — Authority: 563
  Conversation about trivial matters can be idle and useless, and usually is. But the same is true of conversation about deep matters. In some moods, intellectual and spiritual conversation is more offensive to me than mundane chit-chat. Talk can degenerate into profanation. We need periodic recuperation from it in the ...
  2 weeks ago

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