Aphorism Quotes

My premise is that the popular aphorism that 'all religions are fundamentally the same and only superficially different' simply is not true. It is more correct to say that all religions are, at best, superficially similar but fundamentally different. Ravi Zacharias

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I collect axioms, paradoxes, maxims, teaching stories, proverbs, and aphorisms of all sorts, because I love to see complex ideas distilled into a few words. Gretchen Rubin

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There are aphorisms that, like airplanes, stay up only while they are in motion. Vladimir Nabokov

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Aphorisms are bad for novels. They stick in the reader's teeth. Anatole Broyard

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Conservatives are often fond of La Rochefoucauld's famous aphorism that 'Hypocrisy is a tribute that vice pays to virtue,' and so tend to downplay hypocrisy as a sin. But in the marketplace of ideas they champion, hypocrisy may yet turn out to be the deadliest - or costliest - of sins. Bari Weiss

I believe aphorisms are best when first read in the wild, free from the confines of any categories. James Geary

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I compose most of my tweets with care, as if they were aphorisms - they are not usually dashed-off. Sometimes I'm surprised by the high, poetic quality of Twitter - it lends itself to a surreal sort of self-expression. Joyce Carol Oates

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Someone who can write aphorisms should not fritter away his time in essays. Karl Kraus

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The laughter of the aphorism is sometimes triumphant, but seldom carefree. Mason Cooley

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

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I lost many literary battles the day I read 'Their Eyes Were Watching God.' I had to concede that occasionally aphorisms have their power. I had to give up the idea that Keats had a monopoly on the lyrical. Zadie Smith

There is nothing more difficult to define than an aphorism. Umberto Eco

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A transposable aphorism is a malaise of the urge to be witty, or in other words, a maxim that is untroubled by the fact that the opposite of what it says is equally true so long as it appears to be funny. Umberto Eco

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