The nietzsche circle is a philosophical community whose main concern is artistic production and the question of aesthetics, of responding to the crisis of art and its bearing on life, though it will explore all dimensions of nietzsches thought. Teach selfdenial and make its practice pleasure, and you can create for the world a destiny more sublime that ever issued from the. Currently an aphorism is generally understood to be a concise and eloquent statement of truth. We like better to see those on whom we confer benefits, than those from whom we receive them. Almost all of our failings are more pardonable than the means we employ to hide them. One is the effect of new excellencies that are always presenting themselves afresh, and attractour affections continually. If a man fancies that he loves his mistress for her own sake, he is very much mistaken. The moderation of people in prosperity is the effect of a smooth and composed temper, owing to the calm of their good fortune. T he best remembered aphorists have contrived to state new truths in brief and telling ways. At first glance an attempt to relate the seventeenthcentury french aristocrat due. Another one of my favorite aphoristic writers was a contemporary of gracian. Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth. Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by project gutenberg. This one has cost me more, and in more different ways, than i choose to tell the world.
The pithy yet often slightly sour reflections of the seventeenth century aristocrat whose only work was this collection of maxims and aphorisms, praised by. Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire. Or, sentences and moral maxims our virtues are most frequently but vices disguised. This aphorism was later applied or adapted to physical science and then morphed into multifarious aphorisms of philosophy, morality, and literature. To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art. He watched how his fellow guests reacted and tweaked his work accordingly. So i find it ironic that although a single aphorism may be a hegemonic hedgehog, a collection of aphorisms tends to morph into a multitude of cunning little foxes. Aphorisms with an opening and closure effect pensamiento y cultura, vol.
His aphorisms covered all manner of psychological topics, though issues of envy, vanity, love and ambition were recurring themes. Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy. I blush in shame, even though i know that every thinking reader is doing the same. At the same time, the very minimal syntax of an aphorism.
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