Aphorism of the Day
This is an archive of every Aphorim of the Day since 2012.
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1630–1639 (1815)
2015-11-17
tiny.ag/fj2gtz79 · submitted 1997
Ignorance is the mother of devotion.
Robert Burton, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
2015-11-14
tiny.ag/mueprtoh · submitted 1997
The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as to seem not worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.
2015-11-12
tiny.ag/0elygtgv · submitted 1997
An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.
James Michener, Space, in Wisdom and Ignorance
2015-11-06
tiny.ag/lkbki8ft · submitted 1997
For those who fight for it, life has a flavor the sheltered will never know.
2015-11-05
tiny.ag/s5ttukxb · submitted 1997
A hospital is no place to be sick.
2015-11-02
tiny.ag/mzqjkhnh · submitted 1997
Why not go out on a limb? That's where the fruit is.
2015-10-30
tiny.ag/xmilhqgd · submitted 1997
It is impossible to defend perfectly against the attack of those who want to die.
Unknown, in War and Peace
2015-10-24
tiny.ag/kje1nil8 · submitted 1997
Grub first, then ethics.
2015-10-15
tiny.ag/izntlcnj · submitted 1997
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
2015-10-11
tiny.ag/qksor8sl · submitted 1997
I used to think I was indecisive, but now I'm not so sure.
1630–1639 (1815)