There is nothing more difficult to define than an aphorism.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog.
I believe aphorisms are best when first read in the wild, free from the confines of any categories.
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.
Someone who can write aphorisms should not fritter away his time in essays.
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.
Aphorisms are bad for novels. They stick in the reader's teeth.
A transposable aphorism is a malaise of the urge to be witty, or in other words, a maxim that is untroubled by the fact that the opposite of what it says is equally true so long as it appears to be funny.
Words, without power, is mere philosophy.
Humanists are not characteristically strong in faith, hope and love.
We endeavor to stuff the universe into the gullet of an aphorism.