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/y3srvf2w  ·  submitted 2002

People mistake the fact that there are a multitude of misinterpretations of facts, for proof that there is no correct interpretation-- or worse, for proof that there is no reality to interpret. They mention the blind beggars and the elephant, but they never mention the seeing beggar-- nor do they recall that there was an elephant there after all.

RHJunior

tiny.ag/fjcxxqh3  ·  submitted 2002

There are no facts; rather I say there are only interpretations.

Friedrich Nietzsche

tiny.ag/4hcnwpuv  ·  submitted 2002

"So after centuries of being pounded with the
doctrine that altruism is the ultimate ideal,
men have accepted it in the only way it could
be accepted: by seeking self-esteem through others."

Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

tiny.ag/vx2mru1b  ·  submitted 2002

The man who is wise has committed the unspeakable
social crime of not being ignorant.

Mike McDermott, None

tiny.ag/hmquaycm  ·  submitted 2002

Nothing is sometimes a good thing to do, and always a good thing to say.

Will Durant

tiny.ag/bndcdwfu  ·  submitted 2002

Though the truth may hurt, it will be far less than a betrayal of trust.

Brian Gilbert, http://realityloop.com/

tiny.ag/jpxgkfru  ·  submitted 2002

We would despise ourselves if we did not believe we are better than our own lives.

Jefferson Hennessy

tiny.ag/ihl7okdf  ·  submitted 2002

Why do we need so many laws? Because we have the same ability to agree as lizards.

Jefferson Hennessy

tiny.ag/3fkcfz7e  ·  submitted 2002

Proud, proud pagans, /who worship blood-covered stones /because the stones don't contradict them....

RHJunior

tiny.ag/mg2l5eqr  ·  submitted 2002

A pagan god is the ultimate "yes man."

RHJunior

tiny.ag/wpnjbcva  ·  submitted 2002

A man who lies to save the truth is really just trying to save his own ass.

RHJunior

tiny.ag/8arwiyv5  ·  submitted 2002

If you had a group of carpenters, electricians and architects who espoused a "do your own thing" approach to housebuilding, the end result would be a Three Stooges skit followed by the house collapsing in on itself. Yet this "do as thou wilt" is a valid approach to building a soul?

RHJunior

tiny.ag/5nbq2zsv  ·  submitted 2002

In communist countries, state is mother and Government is father, mothers and fathers are cogs.... and children are grist for the mill. The only "father" the cuban government recognized for Elian was Castro.

RHJunior

tiny.ag/w1bg5pf2  ·  submitted 2002

There is no political theory that transcends fatherhood.

Jefferson Hennessy, In deference to Elian

tiny.ag/7ml20wxt  ·  submitted 2002

Truth is not only stranger than fiction; usually it's about ten times funnier too.

RHJunior

tiny.ag/yer2rvtg  ·  submitted 2002

I don't want the world to revolve around me; I just want it to stop trying to throw me off.

Unknown

tiny.ag/w6nymkrc  ·  submitted 2002

Life without a sound sense of tra, can seem like an incomprehensible nup.

Gene B. Beery, From my Artist'sbook:AdmitOnetothe......

tiny.ag/auirtxm0  ·  submitted 2002

Art is the Universe admiring Itself

Gene B. Beery, The title of an Artist's Book by myself.

tiny.ag/4xqjrl1c  ·  submitted 2002

Art is the universe admiring itself.

Gene B. Beery, The title of an Artist's Book by myself

tiny.ag/yb2hck7i  ·  submitted 2002

The original point-and-click interface was made by Smith and Wesson.

Unknown

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