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#aphorisms

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #aphorisms




Embrace aging.


Mitch Albom


#aphorisms #age

Writing is beautiful, like putting on a gold suit and going to sleep in it.


Mark Leidner


#writing #beauty

Few things are more absurd than wise saws originally designed to inculcate or maintain the social needs of a society long past - when they are applied to today.


Idries Shah


#big-picture #lack-of-knowledge #lack-of-perspective #rigidity #design

I can prove at any time that my education tried to make another person out of me than the one I became. It is for the harm, therefore, that my educators could have done me in accordance with their intentions that I reproach them; I demand from their hands the person I now am, and since they cannot give him to me, I make of my reproach and laughter a drumbeat sounding in the world beyond.


Franz Kafka


#education

Wings are freedom only when they are wide open in flight. On one's back they are a heavy weight.


Marina Tsvetaeva


#russian-poetry #tsvetaeva #wisdom #freedom

If you have decided to sail to the sea with great courage and determination, even the storm on the horizon will step aside!


Mehmet Murat ildan


#courage

You can't have love and honor, and neither will bring you peace.


W.M. Driscoll


#love

Men and the world are mutually toxic to each other.


Philip K. Dick


#men

It is by now proverbial that every proverb has its opposite. For every Time is money there is a Stop and smell the roses. When someone says You never stand in the same river twice someone else has already replied There is nothing new under the sun. In the mind's arithmetic, 1 plus -1 equals 2. Truths are not quantities but scripts: Become for a moment the mind in which this is true.


James Richardson


#proverbs #truth #wisdom #equality

The true basis and propaedeutic for all knowledge of human nature is the persuasion that a man's actions are, essentially and as a whole, not directed by his reason and its designs; so that no one becomes this or that because he wants to, though he want to never so much, but that his conduct proceeds from his inborn and inalterable character, is narrowly and in particulars determined by motivation, and is thus necessarily the product of these two factors.


Arthur Schopenhauer


#existentialism #maxims #schopenhauer #design






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