But no single phrase in the writings can compare for directness with the famous aphorism which has gone into the literature of all lands: "Life is short and Art is long; the Occasion fleeting, Experience fallacious, and Judgment difficult.
Although he is so fond of them, Statesman Adams, in taking the latter snow-white position, overlooks an aphorism that will be vital while time lasts.
The perpetual crackle of aphorism and metaphor surprises, gratifies, and then wearies; for a writer who will never say a plain thing plainly, not only keeps his readers under strain, but soon seems himself to be straining.
The direct application of an aphorism was unpopular at Raynham.
Another Aphorism seemed closely to apply to him: "There is no more grievous sight, as there is no greater perversion, than a wise man at the mercy of his feelings.
IV Meredith's style receives its final and distinctive flavor, however, from the liberal dash of aphorism with which his books are sprinkled.
Aphorism might have sprung from this point of observation!
But its basis was expediency, and the baronet had a better aphorism of his own to confute him with.
That is the political aphorism with which the minister of state ground to powder the arguments of M.
In no one could Buffon's aphorism on style find a better illustration, Le style c'est l'homme meme.
Without at all agreeing with this aphorism we still cannot but regret that the new democracy does not use poetry as a means for the expression of political opinion.
Even Her Majesty figures in this extraordinary story in spite of the excellent aphorism ne touchez pas a la reine; and when Miss Alma J.
A man can live for three days without bread, but no man can live for one day without poetry, was an aphorism of Baudelaire.
I cannot help thinking that the last aphorism aims at too high a standard.
Sometimes a kind of moral aphorism is attempted, with more or less success.
Others favored the writing of an aphorism of the sages on a piece of paper, burning it at a lamp, and requiring the witness to swear that as he hoped not to be burned and tormented he would say all that was true.
In the second aphorism of the fourth chapter (see "Raja Yoga," by Swami Vivekananda, p.
Those who have read "Raja Yoga" will recall that in the 18th aphorism of the third chapter it is said: "By perceiving the Samskâras one acquires the knowledge of past lives.
Of course a "but" to other people's aphorisms, as if every aphorism had not buts innumerable.
If I were to put into an aphorism what I mean, I should say, Those who depend wholly on companionship are the worst companions; or thus: Those deserve companionship who can do without it.
Here, with an aphorism worthy a place in The Pilgrim'S Scrip, she broke off to go posseting for her dear invalid.
This aphorism is not of absolute application, perhaps; but apparitions are rare, very rare, and we do not understand their precise nature.
This aphorism calls to my mind an anecdote in the life of Daguerre, related in the first edition of this book.
The nation made no inconsiderable attempt to convert "Business as Usual" from an aphorism into an actuality.
It was a shrewd man of the world who, in discussing sewage problems, remarked that dirt is riches in the wrong place; and that sound aphorism has moral applications.
The aphorism about the river; the figure of the child playing on the shore; the kingship and fatherhood of strife, seem decisive.
The society formed by the hive bee fulfils the ideal of the communistic aphorism "to each according to his needs, from each according to his capacity.
I am delighted with the aphorism on the hazard of marriage (Aphorism 150).
An aphorism of Nietzsche's reads: "What is public opinion?
There is not one aphorism which is not to be found in the thirty volumes of Frederick's writings.
In this system the first aphorism is: Now then we shall expound the Pasupata union and rites of Pasupati.
Nay, because it is impossible in one;" and this same aphorism has been analysed by Ramanuja with the express purpose of shutting out the doctrine of the Jainas.
Maine sums up in his famous aphorism that the movement of progressive societies has hitherto been a movement from Status to Contract.
There is an aphorism of Savigny which has been sometimes thought to countenance a view of the origin of property somewhat similar to the theories epitomised by Blackstone.
It is a widely bruitedaphorism that "all history is a lie," and this aphorism had its birth in the fact that historians become, as it were, magnetized by the characters with which they deal.
Well, I supposed it was Lord Bacon's, and I am very glad to hear that the aphorism has not the sanction of his authority.
But it would be as unfair to Bacon to convert into an aphorism the sentence that discriminates between knowledge and power as it is to convert into an aphorism any sentence that confounds them.
Do you mean to say, sir, that that aphorism is not in Lord Bacon?
Then that should be a warning to you never again to fall into the error of the would-be scholar,-- [This aphorism has been probably assigned to Lord Bacon upon the mere authority of the index to his works.
It is the aphorism of the index-maker, certainly not of the great master of inductive philosophy.
Here one recurs with pleasure to the aphorism cited in the last lecture; in art, as elsewhere, "he who will not answer to the rudder shall answer to the rocks.
This aphorism is, "He who will not answer to the rudder, must answer to the rocks.
One example of this is seen in his searching analysis of the Apostle Paul (Aphorism 68), in which the soul of the "First Christian" is ruthlessly and realistically laid bare to us.
If this aphorism seems obscure, the reader may take Tolstoi as an example of the first class and Nietzsche as an example of the second.
There are even stronger expressions to be met with in "Peoples and Countries" (Aphorism 20; see the Genealogy of Morals, p.
Aphorism 21: "Maxim--to associate with no man who takes any part in the mendacious race-swindle.
He made a birthday aphorism on the subject: "The man who is a pessimist before he is forty-eight knows too much; the man who is an optimist after he is forty-eight knows too little.
Aphorism by the Professor In order to know whether a human being is young or old, offer it food of different kinds at short intervals.
