Aphorisms

Aphorisms

An aphorism is an ekphrasis about the portrait of life.

The sound of one hand clapping is very loud against the side of your head.

Don’t crow until the sun has fully risen.

You can’t teach an old dog.

Speech is golden when silence is gilded.           

Wit is the soul of irony.

An eye for an eye is the gaze between two lovers. A tooth for a tooth is a dental implant.

No evil is unmixed with good. Proportion makes all the difference.

Humanity is not a zero-sum game.

The most destructive alienation is not from a particular community or from society but from oneself.

Be moderate in all things, including moderation itself.        

Witness does not require words.

The virtue of silence involves the exercise of good judgment.

Technology is tyranny.

Mercy presupposes an unequal relationship between those who give mercy and those who receive it, because to be merciful is to give what we possess, sometimes in abundance, to our neighbor, so that we ourselves in some way experience deprivation and want.

Distraction is drinking coffee as you pray. Praying while you drink coffee is devotion.

We should not be so occupied with death that we forget to live.

Senecio (1922) by Paul Klee