"'Character," says Novalis, in one of his questionable……" — George Eliot

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• No aphorism is more frequently repeated in connection with field trials, than that we must ask Nature few questions, or,… — Ronald Fisher
• Beyond Good and Evil, Aphorism 153 — Friedrich Nietzsche
• Finally, to the theme of the respiratory chain, it is especially noteworthy that David Kellin's chemically simple view of the… — Peter D. Mitchell
• On the last day, when the general examination takes place, there will be no question at all on the text… — Robert Bellarmine
• Despite popular conviction, a writer needn't wear black, be unshaven, sickly and parade around New York's East Village spewing aphorisms… — Noah Lukeman
• Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart's blood, as we write it, turns to mere… — F. H. Bradley
• An aphorism? Fire without flames. Understandable that no one tries to warm himself at it. — Emile M. Cioran
• Santayana's aphorism must be reversed: too often it is those who can remember the past who are condemned to repeat… — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
• Aphorisms are literature's hand luggage. Light and compact, they fit easily into the overhead compartment of your brain. — James Geary
• If our planet has seen some eighty billion people it is difficult to suppose hat every individual has had his… — Milan Kundera
• The laughter of the aphorism is sometimes triumphant, but seldom carefree. — Mason Cooley
• We endeavor to stuff the universe into the gullet of an aphorism. — Paul Eldridge

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