The Vine of Life grows a single melon. The color of the heart is unknown until the rind is split.

~ Jack Vance

Jack Vance 1967 Aphorism Navarth

Good morning, nightmare!

~ Ljupka Cvetanova

Ljupka Cvetanova Aphorism Bad Dream Good Vs Evil Morning After Nightmare

Give a man a proverb,and he’ll muse for a moment.Teach a man to find the verb in every proverb,and he’ll walk in wisdom for a lifetime.

~ Cameron Semmens

Cameron Semmens Aphorism Give A Man A Fish Humour Proverb Social Justice Wisdom

Happiness can not be prescribed, postponed or preserved.Relish its unpredictability. Cherish its exclusivity. Accept its brevity. But above all savour its delicious exquisiteness. Do not let it go cold!

~ Dimity Powell

Dimity Powell Aphorism Happiness Morning Coffee

To come up with one great sentence, one needs to serve a life sentence.

~ Lera Auerbach

Lera Auerbach Aphorism Art Excess Of Being Lera Auerbach Poetry Writing

A good night's sleep counts healthy sheep.

~ Brian Spellman

Brian Spellman Aphorism Proverb

Death defines life. I'd rather stay undefined.

~ Lera Auerbach

Lera Auerbach Aphorism Excess Of Being Poetry

What light is to the outer physical world intellect is to the inner world of consciousness. For intellect is related to the will, and thus also to the organism which is nothing other than will regarded objectively, in the approximate same way as light is to a combustible body and the oxygen in combination with which it ignites.

~ Arthur Schopenhauer

Arthur Schopenhauer Aphorism Maxims Schopenhauer

The most dangerous enemy of truth and freedom among us is the compact majority. Yes, the damned, compact, liberal majority...

~ Thomas Stockman

Thomas Stockman Aphorism Majority Nietzche

A journal takes the place of a confidant, that is, of friend or wife; it becomes a substitute for production, a substitute for country and public. It is a grief-cheating device, a mode of escape and withdrawal; but, factotum as it is, though it takes the place of everything, properly speaking it represents nothing at all...

~ Henri-Frédéric Amiel

Henri-Frédéric Amiel Aphorism

Please be my friend.

~ Kevin Mcpherson Eckhoff

Kevin Mcpherson Eckhoff Aphorism Deleuzian Fallacy Forgetfulness Fullhearted Lonely Poet Obnoxious Zirconium

Hindoo wisdom long ago regarded the world as the dream of Brahma. Must we hold with Fichte that it is the individual dream of each individual ego? Every fool would then be a cosmogonic poet producing the firework of the universe under the dome of the infinite.

~ Henri-Frédéric Amiel

Henri-Frédéric Amiel Aphorism Humor Philosophy

All Excess is ill: But Drunkenness is of the worst Sort.

~ William Penn

William Penn Aphorism