We endeavor to stuff the universe into the gullet of an aphorism.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Aphorisms are food for thought - like sushi, they come in small portions that are both delicious and exquisitely formed. And, like sushi, I can never get enough.
This is so American, man: either make something your God and cosmos and then worship it, or else kill it.
There is nothing more difficult to define than an aphorism.
We are discovering what the universe is really like, and it is totally magnificent, and one can only be inspired and awestruck by what we find.
We are either in the process of resisting God's truth or in the process of being shaped and molded by his truth.
We participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves.
We are living through a remarkably privileged era, when certain deep truths about the cosmos are still within reach of the human spirit of exploration.
We are so bound together that no man can labor for himself alone. Each blow he strikes in his own behalf helps to mold the universe.
It becomes us in humility to make our devout acknowledgments to the Supreme Ruler of the Universe for the inestimable civil and religious blessings with which we are favored.
An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog.