Aphorism thread

[Anonymous No.19305574]

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[Anonymous No.19305586]

Three men can talk up a tiger.

[Anonymous No.19305631]

>You forget that the kingdom of heaven suffers violence: and the kingdom of heaven is like a woman

[Anonymous No.19305675]

>Maxims!! They are not practicable, they are meant for conversation and to give someone a chance to say, “Hello, there is a philosopher!”

[Anonymous No.19305723]

>Shyness of self. To avoid others is to avoid conflict, and to avoid conflict is to avoid injuries to one's personality. Like bodily injuries, wounds on a personality hurt more to examine, clean, and suture than they do to receive. For the personality, however, there is no anesthetic save pride and arrogance.

[Anonymous No.19306192]

[Anonymous No.19306894]

It is not that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic; rather, any sufficiently systematic magic is indistinguishable from technology.

[Anonymous No.19306908]

>>19305631
what does this mean?

[Anonymous No.19306918]

>>19305574
Socrates belonged, in his origins, to the lowest folk: Socrates was
rabble. We know, we can still see for ourselves, how ugly he was. But
ugliness, which in itself is an objection, was among the Greeks virtually
a refutation. Was Socrates Greek in the first place? Ugliness is often
enough the expression of interbreeding, of a development thwarted by
interbreeding. In other cases it appears as a development in decline.
Forensic anthropologists tell us that the typical criminal is ugly: mon-
strum in fronte, monstrum in animo [monster in the face, monster in the
soul]. But the criminal is a décadent. Was Socrates a typical criminal?—
At any rate this wouldn’t contradict that well-known judgment of a
physiognomist which sounded so offensive to Socrates’ friends. A visi-
tor who knew about faces, when he passed through Athens, said to
Socrates’ face that he was a monstrum—that he contained all bad vices
and cravings within him. And Socrates simply answered: “You know me, sir!”

[Anonymous No.19306954]

Wish in one hand, shit in the other (and see which one fills up first)

[Anonymous No.19306991]

>>19306918
Interesting observation, but that's hardly an aphorism.

[Anonymous No.19307030]

>>19305723
Accurate, who wrote?

[Anonymous No.19307034]

>>19306991
It’s the third aphorism from the Problem of Socrates section of Twilight of the Idols

[Anonymous No.19307059]

>>19307034
Twilight isn't written in aphorisms, but take your pick from Daybreak, Gay Science, Human all to Human etc.

[Anonymous No.19307075]

>>19307059
One of my favourites, although a bit too long for an aphorism too:

One must learn to love.— This is what happens to us in music: first one has to learn to hear a figure and melody at all, to detect and distinguish it, to isolate it and delimit it as a separate life; then it requires some exertion and good will to tolerate it in spite of its strangeness, to be patient with its appearance and expression, and kindhearted about its oddity:—finally there comes a moment when we are used to it, when we wait for it, when we sense that we should miss it if it were missing: and now it continues to compel and enchant us relentlessly until we have become its humble and enraptured lovers who desire nothing better from the world than it and only it.— But that is what happens to us not only in music: that is how we have learned to love all things that we now love. In the end we are always rewarded for our good will, our patience, fairmindedness, and gentleness with what is strange; gradually, it sheds its veil and turns out to be a new and indescribable beauty:—that is its thanks for our hospitality. Even those who love themselves will have learned it in this way: for there is no other way. Love, too, has to be learned.

[Anonymous No.19307081]

>>19306954
trying this right now. will report back

[Anonymous No.19307183]

>>19307059
Applause. The thinker does not need applause or the clapping of hands, provided he be sure of the clapping of his own hands: the latter, however, he cannot do without. Are there men who could also do without this, and in general without any kind of applause? I doubt it: and even as regards the wisest, Tacitus, who is no calumniator of the wise, says: quando etiam sapientibus gloria cupido novissima exuitur - that means with him: never.

(Even for the wise, the lust for fame is the last of all desires to be laid aside)

[Anonymous No.19307212]

Living under a single maxim is much easier than an intertwined system of morals and interests

[Anonymous No.19307410]

>>19305574
>Anon does not cringe; he is based.

[Anonymous No.19307419]

[Anonymous No.19307588]

>>19307419
Marie Kondo really made an entire career out of this quote.

[Anonymous No.19307592]

>>19305574
Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.

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>>19307592
Having no faith in revealed religion need not mean one has no faith in the tangible.

[Anonymous No.19307662]

>>19307075
Thank you, I will be most likely quoting this aphorism in an essay I am writing. You the goat.

[Anonymous No.19307709]

If a bitch got your back she worth two in the sack

[Anonymous No.19307718]

Bitches aint shit but hoes and tricks.

[Anonymous No.19307724]

did this board just learn the word aphorism or something

[Anonymous No.19307777]

>>19305574
Zeal, not zealotry.

[Anonymous No.19308071]

>>19305574
If two men were on the moon, and one killed the other with a rock, would that be fucked up or what?

[Anonymous No.19308281]

Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.

[Anonymous No.19308296]

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently