Aphorism Quotes
Aphorism Quote of the day
The flame that burns Twice as bright burns half as long.
Almost everything we call "higher culture" is based on the spiritualization of cruelty.
Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not.
The most dangerous enemy of truth and freedom among us is the compact majority. Yes, the damned, compact, liberal majority...
All Excess is ill: But Drunkenness is of the worst Sort.
We are loved way more by some of the people who have not contacted us in the last twelve or so months than we are loved by some of those who contact us every twelve or so days … or hours.
Most sane human beings’ chances of being alive in a thousand years’ time are a hundred times higher than their chances of being sincerely happy for at least ten consecutive days.
We all have problems. Or rather, everyone has at least one thing that they regard as a problem.
Many a death was precipitated by the food, the job, or the medication whose main function was to postpone it.
The death of a billionaire is worth more to the media than the lives of a billion poor people.
While the truth is putting on its shoes, the lie becomes a champion of a long-distance running.
The kind of lies that someone tells us gives us an idea of how stupid, knowledgeable, intelligent, or ignorant they are … or they think we are.
Poets, you always write about women worth dying for. Write, for a change, something about the ones worth living for!
Unless they are off duty, no matter how wide it is, and even when it is sincere, a smile seems fake if the job description of the person who is smiling includes smiling.
People who smile while they are alone used to be called insane, until we invented smartphones and social media.
You cannot be truly humble, unless you truly believe that life can and will go on without you.
Some social ills are preserved by the common misbelief that things such as ignorance, greed, and stupidity do not have the stamina required to reach old age.
A truly compassionate man gives a poor woman a portion of his meal before he eats, not after he has eaten.
-Truly, freeing oneself in one’s own mind is only the first step on a path of freedom.-
Being rich or famous is the only profound thing that some people have ever said.
It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel.
You are more likely to find three TVs inside a randomly selected house than you are to find a single book that is or was not read to pass an exam, to please God, or to be a better cook.
Life sometimes reminds us that it is sometimes heartless by giving something or someone we really need to someone who does not need or even want them or it.
Most sane human beings who are over the age of six usually act or react not as per what they genuinely feel or really think but in accordance with the expectations of those around them.
Some people who have been working out regularly for months or even years are still out of shape because the number of cheat days they have in a week exceeds six.
Some of the people who hate me love some of the sentences that I have written, until they get to the name of the person to whom the sentences are attributed.
All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why.
