Epigrams Quote by Oscar Wilde Download Open image “I summed up all systems in a phrase, and all existence in an epigram.” — Oscar Wilde ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Epigrams Existence Life Phrases
An epigram is a flashlight of a truth; a witticism, truth laughing at itself. — Minna Antrim Copy Share Image
“System 1 represents sets by averages, norms, and prototypes, not by sums. Each” — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
(3) 'IS IT A SYSTEM...?' ... Ultimately, I suspect, this is a question about which the reader should form his own judgement by study… — Raymond Keene Copy Share Image
If I have a system it is limited to a recognition of what Kierkegaard called 'the infinite qualitative distinction' between time and eternity — Karl Barth Copy Share Image
“You are all at once the subject, object, predicate, preposition, and period of my thoughts.” — Daria Snadowsky Copy Share Image
“When we live in a system, we absorb a system and think in a system.” — T. Colin Campbell Copy Share Image
“One constructs for oneself a satisfactory system only when one is ignorant of the characteristics of the phenomena to be explained.” — Maupertuis Copy Share Image
“The Infinite discloses itself, as much of itself as our finite minds can comprehend, by building the universal grammars of language and religion into… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
“Our theory was that we exist, because mathematically we must exist in some universe, given that there are infinite possible universes and we are… — A.G. Riddle Copy Share Image
The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Basil my dear boy puts everything that is charming in him into his work. The consequence is that he has nothing left for life… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“If these elements of beauty are real, the whole thing simply appeals to our sense of dramatic effect. Suddenly we find that we are… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Men always want to be a womans first love. Women have a more subtle instinct: What they like is to be a mans last… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“The great periods of our life occur when we gain the courage to rechristen what is bad about us as what is best.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“For their never-ending endeavours to obtain or retain wealth, countries desperately need companies, because they—unlike most human beings—have the means of production, and human… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“An expensive coffin does not decrease the deceased’s chances of going to hell.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“A premature death does not only rob one of the countless instances where one would have experienced pleasure, it also saves one from the… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
If we did not know all His retorts by heart, if we had not taken the sting out of them by incessant repetition in… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
Fight fire with fire. If you must have bores, always put them together or at the same table ... bores have an effervescent chemical… — Elsa Maxwell Copy Share Image
There is a homely directness about these rustic apothegms which makes them far more palatable than the strained and sophisticated epigrams of the characters… — Brander Matthews Copy Share Image
No amount of misfortune will satisfy the man who is not satisfied with reading a hundred epigrams. — Martial Copy Share Image
“Most human beings would have never been pained by the death of a human being if they had never seen a human being or… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The width of a line may present the idea of infinity. An epigram may contain a world. In the same way, a small picture… — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
“Millions of business people are each constantly forced to choose between their desire to not be a bad person and their desire to be… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
I am mistaken if a single epigram included fails to preserve at least some faint thrill of the emotion through which it had to… — Arthur Quiller-Couch Copy Share Image
