“You need to be greedy or ignorant to truly want to live forever.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Some people stride toward a better future. Others have chauffeurs.” — Ljupka Cvetanova Copy Share Image
“If a man has his eyes bound, you can encourage him as much as you like to stare through the bandage, but… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“Whenever He answers prayers, God usually prioritizes those by people who, instead of their mouths, have prayed with their hands and/or feet.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Millions of sane people would each be sexually attracted to their own parent or child if they were not related to them.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“People who smile while they are alone used to be called insane, until we invented smartphones and social media.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The hunter for aphorisms on human nature has to fish in muddy water, and he is even condemned to find much of… — F. H. Bradley Copy Share Image
An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience — Anonymous Copy Share Image
'Character," says Novalis, in one of his questionable aphorisms - character is destiny'. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other well. — Elias Canetti Copy Share Image
The interest in Wisdom is fading. Soon there will not be enough left to support the aphorism, even though it tries to… — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
“I will never do this, says one, yet does it: I am resolved to do this, says another; but flags upon second… — William Penn Copy Share Image
I do not know to whom the aphorism 'There are no sound studies, only ones that haven't been busted yet' belongs, but… — Mark Dvoretsky Copy Share Image
“A relationship is likely to last way longer, if each partner convinces or has convinced themselves that they do not deserve their… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Life sometimes reminds us that it is sometimes heartless by giving something or someone we really need to someone who does not… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The aphorism in which I am the first master among Germans, are the forms of 'eternity'; my ambition is to say in… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Most sane human beings’ chances of being alive in a thousand years’ time are a hundred times higher than their chances of… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Some of the people who hate me love some of the sentences that I have written, until they get to the name… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“What light is to the outer physical world intellect is to the inner world of consciousness. For intellect is related to the… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Alan Kay's famous aphorism is that perspective is worth 80 IQ points. An innovative insight is not the product of an individual's… — Gary Hamel Copy Share Image
A good aphorism is too hard for the tooth of time, and is not worn away by all the centuries, although it… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I can prove at any time that my education tried to make another person out of me than the one I became.… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“It goes without saying that even those of us who are going to hell will get eternal life—if that territory really exists… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
What are the precise characteristics of an epigram it is not easy to define. It differs from a joke, in the fact… — William Matthews Copy Share Image
Young people of high school age can actually feel themselves changing. Progress is almost tangible. It's exciting. It stimulates more progress. Nevertheless,… — Stella Chess Copy Share Image
If our planet has seen some eighty billion people it is difficult to suppose hat every individual has had his or her… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
If we couldn't laugh at ourselves, that would be the end of everything. — Niels Bohr Copy Share Image
An aphorism is a single sentence that totally exhausts its subject. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
