Aphorisms Galore!

Submissions

These aphorisms have been submitted by users but are not (yet) included in the official collection.

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tiny.ag/ogw1jfm4  ·  submitted 2009

It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.

Upton Sinclair, in Altruism and Cynicism

tiny.ag/ijmd2uln  ·  submitted 2008

Remember, the real F-word is 'future.'

John Alejandro King, from 'The Naked Intelligence Officer'

tiny.ag/3j6y09bq  ·  submitted 2008

if the pen is mightier than the sword, lets go outside and test that theory.

Unknown

tiny.ag/evgun7k8  ·  submitted 2008

If I ask you what 2+2 is, and you come back a day later and tell me not 25...

Dr. House

tiny.ag/fzw8cqfr  ·  submitted 2008

don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.

Unknown

tiny.ag/q9ldcge2  ·  submitted 2008

It was like Time. An undeniable force that did not exist until we spoke its name.

Sergio Mephistopheles

tiny.ag/rd7mm4ig  ·  submitted 2008

Heavy weighs the crown and so we the people took upon the burden without realizing its weight.

Sergio Mephistopheles

tiny.ag/imnlg7xw  ·  submitted 2008

Better to be lucidly unhappy than ignorantly blissful.

Sergio Mephistopheles

tiny.ag/cjwtvvc6  ·  submitted 2008

Signification is attacked until everything means everything and nothing means anything.

Sergio Mephistopheles

tiny.ag/sfaiwjoc  ·  submitted 2008

I have so many faults that I must be approved of in other ways.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

tiny.ag/s37d1mv6  ·  submitted 2008

Life is a game that can't be won; to be fair though some of the pieces are missing, destroyed long ago in a toddlers rage.

Sergio Mephistopheles

tiny.ag/uf267alh  ·  submitted 2008

Nothing has existence in itself. Nothing exists except in dual, antagonistic exchange

Jean Baudrillard

tiny.ag/ha0w5ofh  ·  submitted 2008

The World is not what we think, it is what thinks us in return.

Jean Baudrillard

tiny.ag/9tc5yduo  ·  submitted 2008

God never called off the sacrifice, he merely rose the stakes.

Sergio Mephistopheles

tiny.ag/vk7ctwl6  ·  submitted 2008

We are constantly living at the end of times.

Segio Mephistopheles

tiny.ag/tgwduicr  ·  submitted 2008

Even in Alexander's day the gates of India were beyond reach, yet the King's sword pointed the way to them. Today the gates have receded to remoter and loftier places; no one points the way; many carry swords, but only to brandish them, and the eye that tries to follow them is confused.

Franz Kafka, The New Advocate

tiny.ag/whm8kszu  ·  submitted 2008

He runs after facts like a beginner learning to skate, who, furthermore, practices somewhere where it is forbidden.

Franz Kafka, He

tiny.ag/uu8shswo  ·  submitted 2008

Some deny the existence of misery by pointing to the sun; he denies the existence of the sun by pointing to misery.

Franz Kafka, Diaries

tiny.ag/q0oxf5tr  ·  submitted 2008

Believing means liberating the indestructible element in oneself, or, more accurately, being indestructible, or, more accurately, being.

Franz Kafka, Diaries

tiny.ag/khsw7irg  ·  submitted 2008

No one else could ever be admitted here, since this gate was made only for you. I am now going to shut it.

Franz Kafka, Before The Law

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