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Definition of Aphorism
Aphorism

A comprehensive maxim or principle expressed in a few words; a sharply defined sentence relating to abstract truth rather than to practical matters.

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Aphorism Quotations

The aphorism in which I am the first master among Germans, are the forms of "eternity"; my ambition is to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book - what everyone else does not say in a book.
Friedrich Nietzsche

The laughter of the aphorism is sometimes triumphant, but seldom carefree.
Mason Cooley

An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog.
Friedrich Von Schlegel

Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism.
Robert Bulwer-Lytton

Aphorism Translations

aphorism in Dutch is aforisme, spreuk, kernspreuk
aphorism in French is aphorisme
aphorism in German is Gedankensplitter
aphorism in Spanish is aforismo
aphorism in Swedish is aforism

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