Aphorism Quotes

The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other well.

We endeavor to stuff the universe into the gullet of an aphorism.

There are aphorisms that, like airplanes, stay up only while they are in motion.

The aphorism in which I am the first master among Germans, are the forms of 'eternity'; my ambition is to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book - what everyone else does not say in a book.

My premise is that the popular aphorism that 'all religions are fundamentally the same and only superficially different' simply is not true. It is more correct to say that all religions are, at best, superficially similar but fundamentally different.