Download or read book Proverbs Maxims and Phrases of All Ages written by and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 1294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Quotable Stoic written by Michael Lipsey and published by Cypress House. This book was released on 2014-05-01 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An aphorism is a statement of truth condensed into few words that express much. "Concise, clever, often paradoxical," says Webster's Dictionary. In the ancient world, the first aphorisms were inscriptions in verse, carved into the stone of tombs, statues, temples, and triumphal arches. With the advent of paper, they evolved into brief morsels of insight, often witty or satirical. The Quotable Stoic is a new distillation of wisdom in the classic tradition of Mark Twain, H. L. Mencken, Epictetus, Samuel Johnson, and la Rochefoucauld. If you love aphorisms, you'll be delighted by the original mind reflected here. If you enjoy seeing things from a different angle and like to examine life's larger questions, then this is the perfect book for you.
Download or read book Aphorisms and Reflections written by John Lancaster Spalding and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Book of Aphorisms written by Robert Macnish and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Quick written by George Murray and published by ECW Press. This book was released on 2017-04-11 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The highly anticipated follow-up to the wildly popular Glimpse Quick is George Murray’s second collection of aphorisms — a form that straddles the lines between poetry, philosophy, humour, and prose. He describes these pieces as “poetic essences” — sometimes even as “poems, without all the poetry getting in the way.” Some are deep, some clever, some funny, some all three. The best, he says, should read like common-sense statements that have never actually been expressed. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 16.0px Times; -webkit-text-stroke: #000000} span.s1 {font-kerning: none} Built out of more than 450 short statements, Quick is a series of thoughts and ruminations, any one of which could be an entire poem but instead has been compressed into a single profundity. Following his bestselling Glimpse, Murray continues to explore a wide range of themes: from deep existential disquiet to the comforts of the meaning of belief; from what it means to be alive to how the world deals with hate, love, the sublime, and the ridiculous.
Download or read book The Book of Aphorisms written by Modern Pythagorean and published by . This book was released on 1834 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Aphorisms written by Hippocrates and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Oxford Book of Aphorisms written by John Gross and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 1983 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gathers witty quotations about nature, religion, fear, hope, fame, wealth, politics, marriage, happiness, knowledge, language, and death
Download or read book All Gall Is Divided written by E. M. Cioran and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in paperback, an "antidote to a world gone mad for bedside affirmation" (Washington Post). E. M. Cioran has been called the last worthy disciple of Nietzsche and "a sort of final philosopher of the Western world" who "combines the compassion of poetry and the audacity of cosmic clowning" (Washington Post). All Gall Is Divided is the second book Cioran published in French after moving from his native Romania and establishing himself in Paris. It revealed him as an aphorist in a long tradition descending from the ancient Greeks through La Rochefoucault but with a gift for lacerating, subversively off-kilter insights, a twentieth-century nose for the absurdities of the human condition, and what Baudelaire called "spleen." The aphorisms collected here address themes from the atrophy of utterance and the condition of the West to the abyss, solitude, time, religion, music, the vitality of love, history, and the void. The award-winning poet and translator Richard Howard has characterized them as "manic humor, howls of pain, and a vestige of tears," but, as he notes too, in these expressions of the philosopher's existential estrangement, there glows "a certain sweetness for all of what Cioran calls 'amertume.'"
Download or read book Aphorisms From Shakespeare written by William Shakespeare and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-04 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Aphorisms From Shakespeare: Arranged According to the Plays, &C., With a Preface and Notes; Numerical References to Each Subject, and a Copious Index An aphorism is a clear, con'cise, detacht, and pithy Sen tence impressively conbeying to Observation and Memory, some important Truth. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Long and Short of It written by Gary Morson and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2012-04-04 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brevity may be the soul of wit, but it is also much more. In this exploration of the shortest literary works—wise sayings, proverbs, witticisms, sardonic observations about human nature, pithy evocations of mystery, terse statements regarding ultimate questions—Gary Saul Morson argues passionately for the importance of these short genres not only to scholars but also to general readers. We are fascinated by how brief works evoke a powerful sense of life in a few words, which is why we browse quotation anthologies and love to repeat our favorites. Arguing that all short genres are short in their own way, Morson explores the unique form of brevity that each of them develops. Apothegms (Heraclitus, Lao Tzu, Wittgenstein) describe the universe as ultimately unknowable, offering not answers but ever deeper questions. Dicta (Spinoza, Marx, Freud) create the sense that unsolvable enigmas have at last been resolved. Sayings from sages and sacred texts assure us that goodness is rewarded, while sardonic maxims (Ecclesiastes, Nietzsche, George Eliot) uncover the self-deceptions behind such comforting illusions. Just as witticisms display the power of mind, "witlessisms" (William Spooner, Dan Quayle, the persona assumed by Mark Twain) astonish with their spectacular stupidity. Nothing seems further from these short works than novels and epics, but the shortest genres often set the tone for longer ones, which, in turn, contain brilliant examples of short forms. Morson shows that short genres contribute important insights into the history of literature and philosophical thought. Once we grasp the role of aphorisms in Herodotus, Samuel Johnson, Dostoevsky, and even Tolstoy, we see their masterpieces in an entirely new light.
Download or read book Aphorisms Apothegms Adagios Or Whatever You Want to Call Them written by Erick E Perez and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-15 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is thought that everything is already said and that we must be governed by the rules that society instills in us throughout our lives. One day your brain clicks and you realize that not everything you'd been told fits into the way you see the world; you discover with irony that there are other facets that are only noticed from your perspective. The sparks that arise from your discernment reveal that different view of your environment and beyond.Aphorisms, apothegms, adagios or whatever you want to call them is a compilation which show that hidden side that I have discovered.Erick E. Pérez was born in Nicaragua in 1965. He is graduated from medical school, UNAN Managua. He currently resides in California. In addition to this work, he wrote others titled: La Calamidad, Nuestra Señora de La Calamidad, La lluvia cae por donde quiere, etc.(The Calamity, Our Lady of the Calamity, Rain falls where it wants, etc.)
Download or read book Aphorisms and Reflections on Men Morals and Things written by Johann Georg Zimmermann and published by . This book was released on 1800 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Viking Book of Aphorisms written by Wystan Hugh Auden and published by Barnes & Noble Publishing. This book was released on 1962 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology of pithy sayings dealing with man's ideas. Divided for easy reference into categories such as love, marriage, friendship, religion, science, the arts, and many others.
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Download or read book Aphorisms and Reflections on Men Morals and Things written by J. G. Zimmerman and published by . This book was released on 2017-03-09 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
