Aphorism Quote by Mason Cooley Download Open image “The aphorism is a slippery plaything.” — Mason Cooley ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Aphorism Slippery
The aphorism: a platitude that swerves, or slides all the way around. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
An aphorism is a personal observation inflated into a universal truth, a private posing as a general. — Stefan Kanfer Copy Share Image
The aphorism offers a momentary sense of mastery over some confusion or unhappiness. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
An aphorism is an extreme synthesis of thesis and antithesis, theory and practice, it's a mixture of intuition and observation, hypothesis and illusions of… — William C. Brown Copy Share Image
Aphorism, n.: A concise, clever statement you don’t think of until too late. — James Alexander Thom Copy Share Image
An aphorism is a synthesis of poetry and prose, it is a narrative precipitate, a didactic parable, an ideological concept, in practice it 's… — William C. Brown Copy Share Image
An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
An aphorism is a mental exercise, psychical, logical, linguistic, spiritual, ritual, emotional and rational, it is a major conceptual and literary activity, a mixture… — William C. Brown Copy Share Image
Nostalgia keeps dissolving the ironic narratives in which I have contained my past. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Even the most abject have a sense of superiority based on powerful though undefined merits. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Literary tradition is full of lies about poverty-the jolly beggar, the poor but happy milkmaid, the wholesome diet of porridge, etc. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
My intentions go one way, my desires another. Thus I feel both self-indulgent and deprived. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
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“The real purpose of the opposition is to minimize the amount of money the ruling party will have stolen from the people at the… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
