Aphorisms Galore!

Submissions

These aphorisms have been submitted by users but are not (yet) included in the official collection.

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tiny.ag/spkqanlb  ·  submitted 2010

There's no path, but reason, if it's to be believed in.

Paul Trawitzki, from Certain Truths

tiny.ag/mxulqkg4  ·  submitted 2010

It's a hard truth to face, but there isn't a single place on this planet and more than likely, in this universe, where one can be utterly and completely safe.

Paul Trawitzki, from Certain Truths

tiny.ag/ocmsenhq  ·  submitted 2010

You've got nothing else, if not your health.

Paul Trawitzki, from Certain Truths

tiny.ag/tm0caq7h  ·  submitted 2010

More than likely, there will always be something, even if no one's conscious of it.

Paul Trawitzki, from Certain Truths

tiny.ag/vav0siwe  ·  submitted 2010

What reason proves true is hard for "anything else" to do.

Paul Trawitzki, from Certain Truths

tiny.ag/9bpiruac  ·  submitted 2010

No single moment passes twice and is as distinct, as to be found only once in a lifetime.

Paul Trawitzki, from Certain Truths

tiny.ag/e1kjrdfj  ·  submitted 2010

Put reason aside and all we have left are lies.

Paul Trawitzki, from Certain Truths

tiny.ag/lnnfpbem  ·  submitted 2010

The last to be polite are, usually, the first to fight.

Paul Trawitzki, from Certain Truths

tiny.ag/g8smedqq  ·  submitted 2010

All things come and go, so it's best to know what's your's alone.

Paul Trawitzki, from Certain Truths

tiny.ag/dyxaj7tu  ·  submitted 2010

Everything, that does or doesn't work is a lesson learned.

Paul Trawitzki, from Certain Truths

tiny.ag/hkynxi6u  ·  submitted 2010

Proximity breeds intimacy.

Paul Trawitzki, from Certain Truths

tiny.ag/cqnzghbd  ·  submitted 2010

By persuasion, not intimidation.

Paul Trawitzki, from Certain Truths

tiny.ag/u2sy3lqf  ·  submitted 2010

Reason allows us to make sense of things we're not even familiar with.

Paul Trawitzki, from Certain Truths

tiny.ag/180vtsed  ·  submitted 2010

Better a reality check, than to live in delusion.

Paul Trawitzki, from Certain Truths

tiny.ag/02nrgsmm  ·  submitted 2010

"God" either is or isn't, but no amount of pleading will cause "him" to be.

Paul Trawitzki, from Certain Truths

tiny.ag/2ybbedo0  ·  submitted 2010

Creativity entails freedom, if we're not to be hemmed in by restrictions.

Paul Trawitzki, from Certain Truths

tiny.ag/asuqfcok  ·  submitted 2010 by jibandiya

Two heads are better than one but two blockheads are two too many.

Dipak Sen Gupta, in Wisdom and Ignorance

tiny.ag/w2scxkhm  ·  submitted 2010 by Emilebenoit

Art cannot compete with entertainment in the same manner that love cannot compete with sex.

Emile Benoit, - Essays and Aphorisms on the Higher Man, in Art and Literature

tiny.ag/sxvtaegh  ·  submitted 2010 by Emilebenoit

There is a rather morbid sense of superiority and arrogance that the living seem to feel toward the dead, almost as if those now deceased had been outlived.

Emile Benoit, - Essays and Aphorisms on the Higher Man, in Life and Death

tiny.ag/goq1exyb  ·  submitted 2010 by Emilebenoit

The living are always right, but the dead have all the answers.

Emile Benoit, - Essays and Aphorisms on the Higher Man, in Life and Death

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