Aphorist Quotes

#1. The striking aphorism requires a stricken aphorist.

Alfred Polgar

#2. Aphorisms are essentially an aristocratic genre of writing. The aphorist does not argue or explain, he asserts; and implicit in his assertion is a conviction that he is wiser and more intelligent than his readers.

W. H. Auden

#3. The aphorist is a hit and run artist.

Mason Cooley

#4. I'm a woofer, not a tweeter; a writer, not a telegrapher; an essayist, not an aphorist.

Richard Turner

#5. I've been wrestling with Kafka since I was an adolescent. I think he's a great aphorist, a great letter writer, a great diarist, a great short story writer, and a great novelist - I'd put novelist last.

John Banville

#6. Like a frog, the aphorist waits for something to fly by that he can catch with his tongue.

Mason Cooley

#7. We are sometimes hurt mostly or only not by what happened or is happening to us but by being felt sorry for.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#8. Life sometimes confuses us by making us discover in someone we hate a quality or qualities we love.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#9. Unbeknown to us, some of the people who we hope are missing us wherever they are do miss us; some miss someone else; and some are dead.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#10. How you can come to love an animal! She doesn't talk, but she speaks with her eyes, her paws, her meows, and I understand her.

Zlata Filipovic

#11. Many a man was caused to perish by something that he and many men cherish.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#12. The understanding of "evolutionary consciousness" is perhaps the most important thing lacking in spiritual practices today. Evolution means growth and development. This means that there are aspects of reality that have not yet arisen in our consciousness. But they will arise if we grow.

Ken Wilber

#13. St. Augustine wrote something once, something I think about often," he said. " 'God triumphs on the ruins of our plans.' And maybe that is what is happening here. We make blunders, we make mistakes, and somehow new doors open, new possibilities arise, opportunities of which we've never dreamed.

Anne Rice

#14. Not every single way of saying the right thing is right.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#15. Not everyone who condemns masturbation can masturbate.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#16. As Truman saw the presidency, the chief responsibility was to make decisions and he made some of the most difficult and far-reaching of any president. If not brilliant or eloquent, he was courageous and principled. The invisible something he brought to the office was character.

David McCullough

#17. Religion is rarely mentioned in current prime-time dramas or sitcoms that supposedly reflect the way we live now.

Dan Wakefield