/lit/ - Literature

"There is no such thing as privacy or free speech anymore"-me.

Tattoos and piercings are pointless affectations posturing as a personality.

x is a pointless affectation posturing as a personality.

"A man who poops before lecture does not fart in class."

>>4497348
That's some deep shit right there.

>>4497340
I'm sorry, I really suck at critique because I'm bad with terminology but I like how that last bit sounds, "posturing as a personality". Very sharp sounding, and I suppose the alliteration helps.

I think a pertinent message, and a god observation about today's society. I like it.

>>4497333
I think you could do more work on your message before it really fits the category of aphorism. It's short and sweet but it doesn't appear THAT memorable or original.

I will find and post some famous aphorisms in a sec so people can get a better idea of the types of qualities to emulate and use.

OP here.

Here are some examples of aphorisms I found and which I particularly liked.

"Anything worth dying for is certainly worth living for." - Joseph Heller

"There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside of them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself." - Hermann Hesse

"The gods help them that help themselves." - Aesop

"One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim." - Henry Brooks Adams

"It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees." - Euripides

"Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Well, I just learnt some cool new shit. These were just some I found on page 1 of a total of 15 pages. I will certainly read on. Hopefully this gives an idea of the nature of aphorisms.

From notes on my phone, although I'm not sure how closely I believe them:

"An inoffensive artwork is a dishonest artwork; therefore it is no artwork at all."

"It is necessary to have some money, if you're to feed the neurosis of indifference."

"There is no more potent source of melancholy than a good outfit."

>>4497534
ahaha

I've been repeatedly telling myself this phrase and it's a really fucking stupid phrase and I have no idea what caused it but here it goes

it doesn't take much to kill a man

When the lights go out, the blind have the advantage.

the phrases men are accustomed to repeat incessantly end by becoming convictions, and ossify the organs of intelligence
Goethe

>>4497543
pls don't be rude

>>4497534
This is the sort of stuff I've been looking for.

THESE are original, man. No one else could say them except you, especially the last two.

Aphorisms don't have to be great or groundbreaking or profound. It's more about adhering to the rules of aphorism and you do this well.

I can say that I am genuinely interested in your writing.

"There is no more potent source of melancholy than a good outfit" Can't say I understand what you mean, but that just adds to the mystery. It makes it more like art than anything with concrete meaning. Aphorisms give us this freedom.

Keep writing dem notes, so long as you continue to feel the need or desire to.

>>4497543
Yeah, cmon man. Why don't you step up and give us an aphorism? It's easy to laugh, bro.

>>4497599
Not bad. I suppose "light" and "the blind" have some meaning for you? It has to be symbolic, right? I'm trying to work out what it might mean but I'm struggling to find my own meaning.

>>4497534

>>4497595
You don't need to say it's stupid. If you are saying it to yourself it must have some meaning. I think perhaps it appears too literal, in that I perceive it to represent mans frailty and soft, organic nature, but surely this is already commonly known and thus not original? Perhaps you could abstract it up a bit.

I'm actually very interested now; what do you think it means to you if you're saying it to yourself so much?

>>4497678
I'm not appreciating the tone your reaction image is giving this thread.

>>4497534
>"An inoffensive artwork is a dishonest artwork; therefore it is no artwork at all."

laughing intensifies

>>4497595
I like it, it seems like memento mori to me. If it were said by someone famous historically while they were riding high, just before they got killed by something really silly and trivial (like an accident, or that "they couldn't hit an elephant from this distance" dude), I think it'd easily be one of those classic poignant ones.

When you're riding high, remember you can still get hit by a fucking bus.

It's worth finding out what color a person is, but you can never tell the exact shade.

>>4497690
that's my point, it doesn't have any meaning, nothing deeper than the outright phrasing. I say it to myself and imagine a bullet penetrating flesh and consider the size of the bullet and the skill of the man employing the weapon
The phrase itself does have some value though, I can recognize that. There is a deeper meaning to be found, primarily in that you can easily start taking into abstract topics. It refers to the physical aspect, the bullet, the axe, the car-crash but at the same time it also refers to the causes of depression, disease, honor-based suicides (seppuku, etc), etc

but not to me
I just imagine a bullet killing a man
and that's fucking stupid

>>4497709
oh and then of course it doesn't even have to refer to death. It could just as easily refer to the end of a man's valued existence (hara-kiri)

>>4497709
hahah. Whatever, man. You can see it's potential meanings and that's good enough. Good on ya for posting, man. Seriously, so many people are terrified to share any original thought of theirs for the fear of criticism, and the shattering by others of their own self perceptions.

>>4497696
Please, buddy. Please say something constructive instead of just being mean. What is anyone getting out of this? You are everything which is wrong in this world. People should be able to feel comfortable expressing themselves, not afraid and reluctant.

>>4497723
why should that be better than a world where everyone is forced to pick their words carefully and ensure that their statements maintain the utmost value before being uttered

A black person can get a black eye!

>>4497699
Another good one. You keep a connection between the concept of color, in that you use shade as a description for the finer, more subtle qualities of people. Good analogy, solid aphorism. As with all things, could be better.

>>4497729
Because expression by it's very nature is chaotic. The task of the artist it to put this chaos into a structure. Some things allow more freedom, such as painting, while others such as stand-up comedy must adhere to certain rules in order to garner laughter.

To hold and restrict everyone by your proposed standard would be to eradicate expression as I see it. I wouldn't want to live in a society like that.

OP here, I was about to cook some pasta when I began to ponder how my mind seems to work better at night time (it's 3am here in Australia), so I came up with this attempt at an aphorism;

First it was quite literal:

"The light of ones mind grows brighter as the night darkens"

Then I thought it was better this way;

"Mental luminosity flourishes as day diminishes."

I think if nothing else, it's quite a pretty sentence.

>>4497468
you might like la rouchefoucauld's book of maxims; and perhaps celine too

The other side of the world may be far away, but it is in fact so far away that if it were any farther, it would be closer

>>4497803
I'll check them out for sure. Thanks for the suggestion.

>>4497811
Because the earth is a sphere right?
I feel you are perhaps trying to be clever for the sake of being clever rather than trying to make a meaningful point. Please, correct me if I'm wrong. You wrote it so you of all people should be able to defend it.

It's not bad writing I just personally take issue with it.

>>4497803
Holy Huckalucks, I just read some of Rouchefoucauld's maxims and you were spot on, man. I really like them. Going to buy his books asap. You made my day.

Self enlightenment is but the shrouding of one's own eyes.

>>4497872
Okay. This is probably my favourite so far. Gave me instant meaning. Elegant, concise; speaking of subjective truth.

If I didn't know any better I'd say you just espoused some wisdom, friend.

Only thing I'm unsure of is how original it is. It's kind of a tired subject self enlightenment. I wonder if you read something similar and perhaps unconsciously used another's concept?
Take my inquiries into your originality as a compliment, if in fact you are sure it is original.

>>4497872
GAY!

>>4497872
If Our Eyes Arent Real How Do We Know That Mirrors Are Real?

>>4497934
Jesus, what a great post. Say something constructive. If you don't like his aphorism then give some reasons why. No one gains anything from you saying "GAY!"

>>4497872
That's why it's so important to take of the fedora and start knowing that you know nothing.

>>4497945
Why the relentless capitalization? I was expecting a spooky anagram but to no avail.

Our eyes are real. Mirrors are real.

Seems more like you're asking philosophical questions now rather than constructing aphorisms.

"You shouldnt try to pass on knowledge you dont have."

"Everyone acts like idiots, I refuse to, therefore I act like the greatest idiot of them all"

>>4497326

A game is to be played well,pray for those who did farewell .

Montaigne has some good ones.
"Where there is anything of mine, there is nothing divine."
"Marriage is like a cage: one sees outside the birds desparate to get in; one sees inside the birds desparate to get out."

captcha: float deousia

>>4497957
If you didn't know, this is a (fatuous) quote by Jay Smith's son.

>>4497599
Do you mind if I keep this ?

Save it and write It down Its wonderful

Only those who have never had want for money say that money is nonessential to happiness

>>4497872
Google define: pseudoprofundity

>>4497975
>that money isn't important is a lie the rich tells while they laugh loudly twirling their mustaches all the way down to the bank.

Plebe.

>>4497965
Not a Aphorism but a Haiku

Hot day,
cold night,
beautiful life

OP here. I would say some kind and encouraging words to all those who are continuing to post aphorisms but alas it is my bedtime.

I'm still very keen on this subject and if the thread is here when I wake up i'll continue to push this idea of short and sweet writing through aphorism, and the joy that can be found in constructing words by such standards.

Haterz gon' hate. Don't let them stop you from saying whatever the fuck you want, whether it's complete pretentious shit or brilliant genius (primarily the former, but isn't it relieving to admit?)

Peace y'all.

>>4497920
It does seem rather generic but i thought of it like this; all these other aphorisms are attempting to define a way of thought as truth but when you accept something as truth you are subjecting yourself to only one possibility when in fact possibilities are endless. but you shouldnt even completely take what i am saying now as the true meaning of what i said for that is also subjecting yourself to that one reality.
>*tips fedora*

>>4497664
I haven't actually thought out a specific symbolic meaning, just thought generally about being suddenly having to cope without something that someone else has never had.
>>4497974
Thanks.

>>4498040
It's the quintessential anti-fedora statement.

"Bananas are tasty, yet not nearly as satisfying as a throbbing penis ejaculating into my anus." - Plato

'OP was not a faggot-or is he' -Socrates

Not too deep, but its tragedy hit me when I realized it:
A pacifist cannot enforce his way.

cross your arms and scoff, meanwhile i'll be fucking your ideal partner's virgin asshole

>>4498123
fuck, that's a good'n.

If someone told me that i'd assume it was from Confucius or something.

>>4497326
If you desire ease, forsake learning.

The bigger the lynch mob, the worse the lynching.

A kind of epigram from a poem I'm still writing:

"The search for meaning supersedes
The search for truth
And with that, comes the end of youth."

I liked that one guy who said
>What a shallow and pathetic thread this is

It was very succinct and accurate.

>>4497326
"A foolish man will not accept to being wrong no matter how much logic and critique used against his theorem."

Very apt for 4chan

>>4497326
"An attractive ill-educated woman is a product of a society that teaches women to aim purely for marriage and dependency on men"

>>4497326
>muh dik

>>4498310
"Bitches ain't shit but hos and tricks" - Dre. Dre

"Any action in which that specific action is the sole focus point of your attention is a meditative process." - me.

"Art is like life in that we make of it as we choose"

--Me (Shia Labeouf Inc.)

Hinduism is true from the viewpoint of physics.

Early perspective paintings are analogous to the graphics of the first 8-bit video games, and the first oil paintings (van Eycks) are analogous to the first 3D games ( SM64, OoT, etc.) over time the graphics had less and less flaws.

If a single person listens to a song while riding a bike, once going, once coming back, at least one moment of that song occurred at the same location.

Beethoven was the closest a man ever came to becoming a god.

-Me

>>4498371
>If a single person listens to a song while riding a bike, once going, once coming back, at least one moment of that song occurred at the same location.

>>4498375
it's a variant of Brouwer's theorem

captcha: hniqoth pocus

Chivalry and misogyny are synonyms.

>>4498394
tee hee

"Aphorisms are the hallmark of the unrigorous, unoriginal, and generally undesirable thinker".

>>4498304
I think this one would sound better as
>A foolish man is never wrong.

>>4498409
Cut the pretense aphorisms have their place and can be thought provoking in the sense it kickstarts a long thinking session. Fuck off.

>>>/pol/

"The only way to rebel is to conform."

>>4498419
that's a good one

>>4498415
>tfw gb2/pol/ has finally become diluted to the point of meaninglessness universality any time anyone dislikes anyone

now the real nazi takeover can begin..

>>4498424
Only on 4chan. We despise actual legit rebels by being edgy conformists.

>>4498424
Only on 4chan. We despise actual legit rebels by being so conformists it's edgy. I have thought about this many times because I'm retarded and visit this site to much.

>>4498428
>>4498432

Hivemind.

>>4498439
no, samefag

"There doesn't exist a perfect woman, there's only the woman with whom you compromise with. And that compromise is called love" - Me

It's a shitty quote anyway. I just wanted to tell you that I'm thinking about writing a book and I have close to zero experience. Should I even try?

>>4498426
Is that part of the masterplan, You think?

>>4498415

>in the sense it kickstarts a long thinking session
What evidence have you for this? I actually think aphorisms are particularly potent at making sure a "long thinking session" never occurs, because one tends to believe that the aphorism, in its supposed elegance, is the end-all be-all of the issue. One can "consider" and "reflect upon" the aphorism, but this is most certainly not the best way to go about thinking about anything, because of its lack of rigor and scope. As for the bit about longer "thinking" sessions somehow being better, I would assert that a 10-hour session of meditation done in a sloppy and imprecise way - one characteristic of an aphorismo - is clearly inferior in all respects to five minutes of completely unmuddled and precise thinking done with a balance of vigor and rigor. But of course you, as a fundamental plebeian who has latched onto Continental philosophy in a sad attempt to feel intellectual, have no conception of clarity or rigor, and can instead only understand vagueness, obscurity, and meaninglessness.

>>4498444
How can trips lie!? I was one of them, can't proof though, I'm on phone, no (you).

>>4498453
I wasn't calling you a samefag, I was pointing out that those two posts were.

>>4498451
What insincere non-sense. I don't care for your dickwaving. If analytic shallow bullshit were really the product of 10 hour thinking sessions you guys can't think for shit. You pound out journal after journal of shitty symbol wanking describing nothing of significance to anyone. Meanwhile I'll sit here using methods true and tested from 5000 years of intellectual tradition.

>>4498419
Rebellion is sold to you by the elites and big businesses of the world.
I'm sure a lot of you have heard these phrases:

"B UR SELF"
"B DIFFERENT"
"REBEL AGAINST UR PARENTS :)))"

Thus, by rebelling you are actually conforming.

>>4498475
quit making a good point bad

>>4498481
how is it bad

>>4498475
You got it the wrong way around. Thinking is subversive, then it gets tamed through pragmatists and capital who finds out how to profit on the new 'fad', first as tragedy (when the actual riot gets stomped down by brute force) then as farce (commerce dressed as rebellion).

>>4498491
I guess that's also a good point.

>>4498419
Learn and be the system, then break from it. Idt rebelling for the sake of rebelling has its merits.

>>4498474

>implying the ancients, with the possible exceptions of Heraclitus (the bastard!) and Plato, would be impressed by the current state of Continental sophistry
>implying the Medievals would either
>implying the early moderns would either
>implying Kant wouldn't be appalled at what he had created

Face it buddy, you Continentals are a new breed entirely, and the greatest enemies of true Western philosophy since the High Medieval Catholic church. The Analytics are, by and large, the heirs of the philosophical tradition. And further, you're correct in assuming that we don't spend more time than we need to thinking about the same thing over and over again. We consider something and move on - no need to have the 10-hour masturbation sessions that Continentals throw around in the attempt to impress undergrads with a certain sort of self-image. We don't feel the need to justify our thought by displaying the circumstances in which it was thought, because it stands on its own, unlike the thought of every (significant) Continental before or since Heidegger.

>>4498491
Can you expand on the commerce bit?

>>4498499
>I'm a unapologetic shallow thinker

OK. Maybe that's why you discard that which you don't understand.

>>4498505
Expensive 'punk' clothes, fair trade, ecology, 'green this and that' MY GOD! Haven't you read your Zizek?

>>4498507

>YOU DIDN'T SPEND LONG ENOUGH THINKING IT
>GO BACK AND THINK SOME MORE AND THEN COME BACK TO ME: YOU CAN'T WRITE OR SAY ANYTHING YET
>YOU SEE? ACCORDING TO THIS DIAGRAM (based, of course, upon my brilliant and acclaimed dialectical analysis of psychocultural transbeing-upon-desire) DEPTH IS DIRECTLY PROPORTIONAL TO TIME. NOW GET BACK TO THINKING, PEON!

Yes, sir! I will think only the things officially ordained by the High Council of the Continent, and I will think them only in the circumstances ordained by that council!

"While the noise entertains you, the silence feeds you"
"Define your reality to change it"
"Your mind is nothing but a wall of glass, if you clean it or you leave it be tainted, is up to you"

>>4497723
>Please say something constructive instead of just being mean

>>4498520
Bullshit aside, I know this doesn't make ground for 4chan faggotry, but have you ever considered maybe both sides have merit? Wouldn't we be more poor in our 'wealth of thought' if one of the sides 'won'? Sorry to take the high horse but are our traditions mutually exclusive?

"Life is for the living, but the dead interject."

"Love is a transaction raised to the level of emotion."

If you eat pizza out of a shoe, you're gonna be eating pizza out of a fucking shoe.

>>4498525

The only Continentals for which we would be any less well off not having would be Heidegger and (if you consider him to be in the Continental tradition) Hegel, and even then, it would perhaps have been better for them not to have existed in the long run either, since this would give the Analytics a chance to discover phenomenology on their own and on their own terms, instead of neglecting it due to its association with the Continent. But quite frankly, the only thing I consider of value in the Continental tradition is phenomenology, and even then, the Analytics do it much better than the Continentals themselves. So no, I don't think we'd be at much of a loss if the Continental tradition never arose, since I'd imagine the Analytics would have discovered its only useful component by themselves given time.

Daily reminder that analytic philosophy is math puzzles for wannabe STEMfags who couldn't cut it

>>4498552

Go away, poet.

>>4498540

>Hegel
Sorry, I made a mistake, given all the German names starting with H. I meant Husserl.

>>4498499
>>4498540

>implying the Medievals would either
You forgot Gadamer

When I use hermeneutics I use the idea that the "text" I interpret is divinely inspired and as a mere mortal I cannot fathom the divine message so i have to analyze and analyze in different ways and were any new understanding held againsr the earlier understanding makes for a better understanding. This is also what you do to laws as societies around them change. Again don't speak of that which you don't understand. Phenomenology is the shit also, yes. Good you recognize it.

>>4498565

This whole business of text and hermeneutics is I think unfounded and I don't claim to understand it (since I don't think there's much to understand), so you haven't really convinced me of anything.

>>4498581
That's up to you, you have no reason to, if you are in a culture where there's only one way to do things, you see neither phenomenology or hermeneutics excludes precise measurement as one way of revealing 'appearance' or meaning, it just also invites other forms of knowledge to be weighted into the "knot of inane babble" as you would probably call it or synthesis as I would.

>>4498610

>you have no reason to
I have no reason to what? I usually don't get hung up on grammatical/stylistic errors, but I don't know what you're referencing here. And whoever said I was so invested in precise measurement? Make no mistake: I am no empiricist, and no positivist. I just want people to know what they're talking about, and how to most effectively talk about it, instead of just spouting off whatever "feels" right in some sense.

>>4498632
You have no reason to learn the particulars if your from a culture that praises the analytic tradition. Sorry my bad English I usually bring a better game, but it's late and I'm tired.

>instead of just spouting off whatever "feels" right in some sense.

You kind of have to if your body also contains legit sources of knowledge, you see we don't operate under the "illusion" that you can remove yourself from your understanding. So knowledge is only complete if we also understand how we ourselves cloud the data. If you are a phenomenologist you then "bracket" yourself from the equation, to get as close to objectivity (in the sense only the context is described and your subjectivity is removed) as possible and if you are a hermeneutic you use your knowledge of yourself to gain new interpretations (only applicable to forms of text though) being as clear and precise would only destroy potential understanding to us that's why we don't have the same ideal as the analytics. You don't have to agree though.

Education is the only spirituality. Spirituality is a process of learning of the self. Thy spirit is thy self.

>>4498677

I don't understand why being clear would destroy the ability to do phenomenology. I've never understood it. It seems to me that, just like all other philosophical pursuits, phenomenology would greatly benefit from an increase in precision.

>>4499019
How can you be clear about things that appear vaguely to you but still unveils itself? The only way to solve that Is positivism so we only "speak" in academia about those things you can reduce to exact numbers and symbols. I don't understand why you think being precise is so great. You might be precise about the wrong thing.

>>4499055

Well we clearly have fundamentally different views of philosophy, and human activity generally. Just because something INITIALLY unveils itself vaguely, doesn't mean one can't, through careful and precise consideration, make it explicit. I mean, when we talk about the background practices/Dasein, we're already removing ourselves from their initial representation - and that's perfectly alright, because that's how it has to be done. We ought to go all the way and make them fully explicit through precision.

>"...for 'there's a remedy for everything except death;' and as I shall be in command and hold the staff, I can do as I like; moreover, 'he who has the alcalde for his father-,' and I'll be governor, and that's higher than alcalde. Only come and see! Let them make light of me and abuse me; 'they'll come for wool and go back shorn;' 'whom God loves, his house is known to Him;' 'the silly sayings of the rich pass for saws in the world;' and as I'll be rich, being a governor, and at the same time generous, as I mean to be, no fault will be seen in me. 'Only make yourself honey and the flies will suck you;' 'as much as thou hast so much art thou worth,' as my grandmother used to say; and 'thou canst have no revenge of a man of substance.'..."

"In this moment, I am euphoric. Not because of any phony god's blessing. But because, I am enlightened by my own intelligence." - Me

"Just to be clear, I'm not a professional 'aphorism maker.'" - Also me

this is the most neckbeard fucking thread

My little anon can't possibly be this pretentious

>>4499153
how dare people post idea's and short sentences

not everything is fedora tipping

"To write vapidly of happiness is easy, to write convincingly of despair even easier. To write of happiness so that it can convince even the despairing is the goal of art."
"Universal statements are only universally wrong."
call me a regular wilde

>>4499230

>Universal statements are only universally wrong.

I understand, so a statement like "If P is true then P is true" is wrong, correct?

http://www.scaruffi.com/quotes.html

>>4499244
Hey, I quite seriously refuse to take anything I've said seriously (lel wilde)

Was about to share a bunch of them I've come up with but realized I'd rather put them in my writing so I can be quoted like a famous person.

Insert aphorism about selfishness.

"I'd rather put them in my writing so I can be quoted like a famous person."

>>4497761
Thats damn good

"Never ever put forth a particular idea using two or more words when the same idea could really be put forth using only one."

>>4498375
>>4498386

OP here, back from my slumber. I could just say sleep but I wanted to say slumber, so fuck ya.

No one cares that I'm back but I sure as hell care. I think the rest of the day will be me replying to a lot of the new posts in 20 or 30 minute intervals. What an exciting life I lead.

I see a lot of new haters. Welcome friends.

"My body is genius but it often interferes with my own attempts at the same."

Read; "ATTEMPTS"

I'm certainly no genius, yet don't we all strive to be in some way?

>>4498451
You are completely wrong about aphorisms being the end all and be all of an issue. It merely sheds new light on issues. You only stop thinking if you want to. Don't suppose anyone here is under the illusion that they have successfully summarized and clarified an issue in one sentence. It's merely an exploration.

If aphorisms don't support long thinking sessions for you, perhaps you'd prefer to read or write something of another form, but don't suppose that your disfavor of aphorism should be a shared disfavor. We aren't lying when we say we enjoy the way short writing makes us think. And to prove this, well, how would one go about that?

>>4497348
Actually I'd say farting is more probable after you've unclogged yourself. The gases aren't blocked anymore.

>>4498409
What is a "desirable" thinker? To say that aphorism is an undesirable way of thinking seems to serve to inhibit the freedom we are given in writing. Protect the freedom we are given in writing, and try not to judge people just because they enjoy writing a certain way. Art of all places has little to no room for constriction of thought, where thought is simply what we must, or desire to think.

>>4499645
sometimes after I poo, I witness a gaseous gush of rancid air, propelled softly, calmly yet rapidly by my unclapping and freshly stretched rectum.

A good poet is a miserable one.
Musicians are emotional manipulators.
Newton's laws are as firm in the physical as they are in the realm of Will.
There is good and bad stress. The good invigorates, the bad atrophies.
Good and bad are two halves of a wheel.

Climbing a hill is an accomplishment, but never lose sight of the mountains in the background.

My thought behind this is the fact that I disagree with the modern idea that "you're perfect just the way you are". None of the great movers of history sat around believing they were great. They were not content - they sought to grow and change their world.

To me there are two types of people in this world: those that can only see the hills they have climbed and those who see the mountains that they could climb.

Once you realize that the majority of people will do the bare minimum to survive, the idea of succeeding in life becomes much more tangible.

The idea is to not be apart of the herd and to attempt to be great.

Of course I haven't actually achieved much, but I have a goal in mind and strong values to guide me there.

>>4499802
>the idea is to not be a part of the herd and attempt to be great.

Greatness is to show a way for the herd; not to separate yourself from it.

OP here. I feel quite selfish for prolonging this thread so much, but it's funny how the things we do for ourselves can sometimes benefit others more greatly than if we were to try and act selflessly. I suppose that's the beauty of sharing- everyone wins.

I went to my State Library today, because I wanted to read La Rochefoucauld's book of Maxims after receiving a suggestion from a consideration gentlemen here in this thread.

I had to get the book on retrieval which I found kind of odd, surely I could just pick it up off a shelf? Things then started to get even more strange. The book was apparently waiting for me in the "reading room" on the third floor of the library, a place I seldom go. I entered the room with apprehension and handed my slip of paper containing the books details to the lady at the counter, who then proceeded to pull out a ragged, worn and very beautiful tome. It really has to be called a tome. I could imagine the Ancient Greeks or European intellectuals of the 18th and 19th hundreds carrying around similar books in their day. A cushion was laid down on a table, and the woman handed me a pair of gloves, "You'll be needing these." I took the gloves and slipped them on. "This is getting exciting", I thought to myself. I carefully sat down as to not allow my head or body to hover over the book, as I was extremely conscious of the beads of sweat forming on my brow. I opened the book with great care and intense anticipation. I scanned the first words of the very first page- I could hardly wait any longer. "What does it say?" I pondered enthusiastically. It said nothing. It was in French. The whole book from cover to cover was in French. I didn't understand a single word.

It was still a great experience. I read through the pages and did my best to translate from the couple of years of language classes I took from my schooling days. No meaning was found, but I still spent a good 10 minutes just admiring the book itself, it's history and it's character spoke to me enough to keep me intrigued.

Pic related- Oeuvres of François La Rochefoucauld. Printed in 1868 (I think).

>>4500225
Another pic. The inside cover.

Being depressed and around people who aren't is like being sober amongst drunks.

>>4498097
I am a huge faggot, but I'm hoping i'll grow out of it someday.

"I'm very good at abusing drugs, or rather I'm very bad at being happy."

sad but true :( hold me bros

>>4497326
You can lick a dick, but you can't make it stiff

Art is your life

A Benjamin Franklin a day keeps the shitty role models away

>>4497326
>"Art is like life in that we make of it as we choose" -OP

Cringe

>>4497534
So if I draw a picture of a neo nazi standing over the corpses of black men, am I an artist?

>>4498224
>>4498123
TIL tautologies are profound

>>4498371
>first 3D games
>Nintendo 64 titles

>>4499153
I agree it's so cringeworthy it's comical

>>4500234
>muh depression is profound!

>>4500269
You must be one of those who has sex regularly.

>>4500269
I think it's great.

>>4500269
You sound like one of those pseudo intellectuals who try their best to be above others on an Anonymous web forum.

>>4499660

I use undesirable in the sense of bad. And this is just the problem: people think these little poetic snippets called aphorisms can be anything more than that, and can somehow convey "profound" philosophical truth. They just don't.

>>4499637

As I said, it's a matter of rigor and scope. I'm not saying you secretly are lying about your ENJOYMENT of aphorisms, I'm rather saying that I don't think aphorisms are GOOD. When I say that meth is bad, I don't mean it isn't enjoyed, but rather that it is simply ethically harmful.

In this moment, I am Euphoric. Not because of any phony god's blessing, but because, I am enlightened by my intelligence.

>>4500343
>muh insane ideals.

"Don't judge me for not believing in a 'god'. Judge me for being superior to you."

"A person can only truly be free once they rid themselves of religion, and all associated fairy tales, for that matter."

[tipping intensifies]

"If you are not free from the opinion of other people, you will never truly be free at all as a human being."

"If you cannot say that the world would be a better place if everybody were like you: kill yourself."

"It is one of Nature's biggest pranks to produce a being capable of rational thought, only to make it believe in invisible sky wizards and other things whose non-existance is so painfully obvious to anyone with high intelligence, again."

Here's mine:

This thread is fucking moronic.

Op here

To people saying this thread is cringeworthy, well, it probably is. these things can be cringeworthy, but I feel you have the wrong attitude about what people are doing here. I love any environment people can try to be original, creative and serious about their ideas and thoughts. It's all about trying, and no matter how shit you are you should always try, and to learn to improve. I think that's what this thread does for people, it's certainly what it does for me.

>>4500400
Good contribution to the thread. Good encouragement to anyone who tries.

10/10 post

>>4500255
What made you cringe about it? I actually want to know. I'm the OP

>>4500426
"Your mom's pussy is like life in that I make with it as I choose."

People who shoot others down are themselves afraid of how others would respond to their attempts.

>>4500435
So much this. Trouble is, we can never prove it and they'll probably never admit to it.

I understand it because I used to feel the exact same way about threads like this. I've changed how I think and now I'm not so afraid anymore.

There's nothing I'll love enough to be very good at anything.

>>4500431
touche

>>4500343
Why should you be the judge of whether aphorisms can be profound or not? You sound so arrogant.

>>4500378
Very relevant to this thread, good job.

Fearing death because it may make your life meaningless is foolish and based on feelings that would in themselves be meaningless.

I have two, but Im worried it;s dumb. Its too short but I think it has some deeper meaning


Things fade away


Things fall down

>>4500621
If you think it has some deep meaning, it probably does. Your task as a writer is to let us know that meaning. Sometimes this is hard, sometimes our thoughts and ideas develop naturally and over time. Sometimes we can't fully or truly express something until we can completely understand that thing. Understanding is comprehensive and hard. You can't really teach it effectively- it's the task of the individual. That's one of the reasons I became so disillusioned at school when I was there. It's always good to stay in touch with your ideas, even if they are incomplete or you think they are stupid. You will know what to do with them eventually.

My wallet has a notepad in it and so I occasionally jot down remarks I enjoy, here are a few:

>Black and white is for 40's films; you need the whole rainbow to show the world as it is.

>For success, you must focus, just as a camera. Even with a Leica, the picture will be shit without focusing.

>There's a story behind every cigarette butt.

>Tradition reduces the necessity of thought.

>See yourself as you wish others to see you.

>When critiquing a picture, look first not on faulty pixels, but the image as a whole.

>Excuses come in many forms.

>You'll always miss something, until not.

>Live life on a whim.

>I think that I do not think.

>Be spontaneous, deliberate, eclectic, open-minded, skeptical, genuine, courteous. Be yourself.

>Between white and black exists all colors.

and one of my favorites

>The tides of time erode all things.

Feelings are like notes you have to play them right to make music

>>4500702
I liked a couple, wasn't so fond of others.

>"There's a story behind every cigarette butt"

That's my favourite because it adds a gritty element to the story we imagine. That's the other thing; this statement invites the reader to imagine for themselves these stories. So not only have you positioned the reader to respond, you have also suggested and directed the tone these stories will assume.

Very good. I wonder if you realise how good it is, unless you stole it that is, or just copied another phrase and added cigarettes into it. These are all possibilities but I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and the praise I see fit of giving.

Damn, that was A+ essay shit right there in that analysis of positioning and tone and all that good shit. fuck yeah

Op here btw, still marching on holy fuck why haven't I just killed myself yet? did anyone read my book story above? did anyone find it as humorous as me, or was it too tedious to bother get to the end? I'm assuming it was too tedious. Would probably be better as an anecdote in a social setting. Who the fuck wants to read about cunts reading books in libraries anyway? GHEYYYYYY

To be master of your own domain, you must first be master of yourself.
-anonymous

>>4500769

Ah thank you, and it is original, so don't you fret.

>>4500778

reads better as: "to master your own domain, you must first master yourself."

>>4500527
Make it more concise, and you've got a great one there.

"Punishment neither relieves the victim of their suffering, nor returns the humanity of the perpetrator."

>>4500702
>Tradition reduces the necessity of thought.

>There's a story behind every cigarette butt.

Love these ones, good job man. memorising

>>4500702
>There's a story behind every cigarette butt.

I'll join the choir and praise this. This is a lovely reminder to stay conscious and praise the world for the enigma it is, just from pondering on the simplest of observations.

>>4500455
I'm feeling this one. I mean genuinely, I feel this often. I will never "love" something in such an insane way that I will obsess over its minute details and become great at it, only have a broad and general love.

OP once again. Boy don't I stop. I just looked at my disgusting self in the mirror and thought of this; not profound at all, but concise at the very least:

Chest hairs grow longer, head hairs grow thinner, facial hair grows faster, and the desire for youth grows stronger.

I think I could make it better but I couldn't find the right words to use.

A sentence like a quicksand of ideas.

>>4500845
Jesus, that's a fucking epic simile.

Is that from the Simpsons or did you write it lel?

>>4500866
I wrote it, but I usually write in french. Thanks!

I like to have simple and normal hair, and for my face to speak for itself; I do not want to dress ostentatiously, but I want to dress nicely. Hipsters, emos, goths, punks, and just about every other subculture who do stupid shit with their appearance are simply people who have let their desire to hide overtake and as a result to eventually mask who they really are.

This isn't even an aphorism it's just what I think about hipster faggots.

>>4497326
I think it would have more power if life was the subject instead of art.

>>4500873
Your sentence is great for a couple of reasons:

First of all, It's self fulfilling. It is a description of a sentence, describing it's own sentence. Not onlt because the reader is drawn to the idea of sentence, but because the sentence also actually is like a quicksand of ideas. Three words that go too beautifully together to be true, "Sentence, quicksand, ideas" and but four words joining it all up, "A, lika, a, of".

Do you also know how genius that simile is, or is beauty really in the eye of the beholder right now?

>>4500920
As long as you are conscious about how you look, you are a hypocrite for denigrating others for being the exact same.

You still obviously want to send a message, you pretentious fuck.

If you want to take the high ground let everything grow and don't give a fuck.

>>4500924
Thanks for the suggestion. I admit I toyed around with switching the two words in position but seemed to just settle on having "Art" first without really thinking. Maybe I subconsciously think it's more powerful that way. I think I already thought it sounded too self important, so I kind of wanted to focus it as an exploration of art instead of the vastly more difficult exploration of life.

>>4500971
You are very kind, thank you. I have to admit I've been working on a book of aphorisms, in french though, but this one I made up for this thread.

>>4497326
"dreaming is the easy part, most people can do it in their sleep." me, in reference to putting in work to achieve goals

>>4500976
I need to look acceptable, everyone does, but no one needs to look extraordinary. Everyone is conscious of how they look. I suppose some are more conscious of others if they feel the need to stand out and be interpreted a certain way.

I do basically let shit grow and not give a fuck. I just go get a number 3 haircut every two or three months before my hair becomes unkempt, messy and unmanageable. My hair does this, trust me.
Same with my facial hair- grow it until it gets disgusting and suggestive of poor grooming habits then I'll shave it all off with a razor. it's like you should never really go past a certain stage of facial hair (at least for me because it looks terrible) unless you are planning to commit and grow a full beard. 10day growth is pretty sex, few days after that it can actually get better but certainly by day 20 you will have some messy shit unless you got killer genetics and are just already very sexy. It goes without saying that I am not at all "sexy".

So I can't really be expected to just let my shit grow like a homeless guy because I live in a society where that shit isn't exactly helpful. I do just about the closest thing I can to it, though. I have some standards but they are very minimal and very humble in my opinion.

I used to be a hipster bro. At school when I was 14, 15, 16, and to some extent 17 I was wearing the skinny jeans and havin' me top button up. I had hipster friends and we would go and watch foreign movies, go to thrift shops and we even had a fucking terrible band. It was so fucking terrible. I understand these things. I was a faggot and I can't believe you would try to defend hipsters.

>>4501053
I'm like you, except I'm not under the illusion I have grown past anything. Having tried it, I understand it. I just don't believe appearance is important anymore beyond the basics, like you. Instead I have shifted my focus to inner growth, being a responsible, useful member of society. I guess the only difference is I'm not mad at them.

>>4501081
Yes, how I enjoy getting angry.

>>4501081
And I do think I've grown past something. I do like expressing myself through clothes still but I don't like the idea of people joining preformed groups which essentially have unspoken rules of how to dress and look. Do you know what hipster groups are like? They constantly pick people apart group members and hipsters of other groups if they don't conform to their ideas of how to be "hipster", which makes no sense because it's supposedly all about individuality. I don't know what the fuck kind of stupid shit is going on in their heads.

>>4501103
The paradox of their uniform sense of individuality is quite a common attribute to mass society. I agree. I have quit myself.

You know there is a fashion board you should take this conversation to, right guys? Or at least try to aphorism.

"In this moment, I am euphoric. Not because of any phony god's blessing. But because, I am enlightened by my intelligence."

"Life is an endless stream of experience and thoughts, you'd better learn the strenuous effort of how to swim upstream"

>>4497326
jesus christ op your prepositions hurt me

>>4501127
I'm the OP. I was arguing about fashion so I give myself kind of a right, because this thread wouldn't exist if I hadn't have made it. Don't mind us, just a friendly chat between ex-hipsters.

At the end of the first quarter of your existence you must analyze and re-evaluate your life, if you have done nothing worthwhile that which would benefit mankind then you must take your own life immediately.

This isn't an aphorism, just a speculation on how cool I am, not to mention edgy as FUCK.

Driving speedily and recklessly down empty streets at the break of morning while puffing on tobacco and listening to loud music is like a complicated dance. If but one step goes wrong your foolishness will become apparent.

Oh yeah, baby. This must be why women find me irresistible.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnqCmQ7gej8

I think this thread needs some of the classiest hip hop out today.

Seriously this song will be awesome, particularly if like both Jazz and Hip Hop.

Jazz cats pt. 1 - Quasimoto

>>4497326

"Nothing exists."

"Being cannot be born from non-being for something cannot come from nothing, but birth as being is neither being nor non-being but the being of Being."

>>4501334
Does nothing exist? Or is nothing really existing?

My mind just imploded :(

>>4501334
You're taking the shit, right?

If they are serious aphorisms then I apologize, and urge you to continue to try and improve, because currently they're not looking good.

>>4501354
''You can't know nuthin!''

-every philosophaggot ever who tries to disprove airplanes and spaceships and the efficacy of medicine.

inb4 ''b-but you can't know nuthin', except fer god lol :)''

fuck you and your fucking smiley face you fucking blob, you're mom has a rotten cunt, you're dad is ded, i curse you and your progeny with aids, science wins, case closed.

chew and choke on that, motherfucker.

>>4501366
>>>/sci/

Why they're so fond of that obnoxious phrase I'll never know

>>4501366
Did I hit your sensibilities that hard, my good chum? Why this sudden want to go on a rant so personal? We were having a really jolly time in this gathering until the gentleman, that is yourself, showed up.

>>4501369
>>4501390
holy shit! no amount of philosophy can alleviate your analpain. that assrash really must hurt something wicked, huh?

have you thought of paying a visit to the local doctor? he will prescribe for you some real medicine, instead of sophistry. lol, you niggas hurt as fuck.

i only know what i know

>>4501454
and that's very little

>>4501458
i didn't actually intend to make it so -worldly-. I was thinking more along the lines that I'm limited in what I can tell you, but not limited in the sense that the amount of knowledge we can gain in our lifetimes will always pale in comparison to what there is to be had, but rather that I can't output new information if I don't have it. When I think of the phrase, it's usually because someone is acting like I'm google. If I don't give you the correct answer, the problem is likely that the query needs to be rephrased.

I suppose that's a limited context though

I always try to make aphorisms only to learn down the road that someone has already said what I did, and more eloquent.

>>4501545

Do or do not. There is no try.

-me

"Try to do that's the only do you don't can."

if you're trying to remember something, google it
if you can't google it, it's not worth trying to remember

>>4501719

Yeah, because my child's birth is totally googleable.

>>4502266
Facebook.

'We are all products of the Universe created to explore itself.'

>>4502351

this is dangerously similar the that carl sagan line about humans being a way for the cosmos to know itself

i'd bet cash you aped it from there

>>4502363
#exposed

>>4502351

this is dangerously similar to that carl sagan line about human beings a way for the cosmos to know itself

i'd bet cash you aped it from there

>>4502366

#caught me in the middle of a typo edit lels

its a good sentiment and all but it has sagan all over it

>>4499244
No, I think it is more like this. If the study ZFC set theory, you will find that the set {x: x=x} is the empty set. Von-Neumann-Bernay set theory solves this problem, but only at the cost of introducing two types of "sets": sets and classes.

We are here to see what we can see before we die. To sin is ultimately to waste your life, to do something with bores God--something which God as seen many times before. It is sinful to be lustful because God has seen you apes do those acts many times. Its nothing new. To be malicious or vengeful, those bore God too. It is easy to spread malice and to commit revenge---but it takes strength to forgive. God expects you to slap a man back when he slaps you. He expects you to punch a man back. But if you forgive a man instead---if instead of bunching him back, you fall to the ground and kiss his feet instead---God will be proud of you.

To enter God's grace, you must be original. Do something new, something weird. Make God clap His hands and laugh. Forgiveness is certainly not original, but it happens far less than maliciousness and vengeance. God likes things out of the ordinary. He likes you out of the ordinary--he picks people up between his loving fingers out of the ordinary and into the heaven.

>>4502382
*the -> you
mea culpa

>>4502367
or

“You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.”
― Alan Wilson Watts

>>4497872
yeah, total bullshit

>>4498123
Said no pacifist ever. This hinges on what you mean by "enforce", if you mean violating the free-will of another, then fine, but it is kinda meaningless then.

Enforcing one's way can be brought forth through compelling argumentation or by being a living example.

>>4498411
even better

>A foolish man is.

Heraclitus.
"War is the father of all and the king of all."
"Up and down are one and the same."
"You can't step in the same river twice."

Also, Aristotle positively hated him due to his obscurity. (Of course this is how I read it; I am open to correction).

"Bling gold chain bling I am king of America" - Al-Ghazali

The intricate complexities of an epiphany cannot be inferred from reading some ambiguous quote - me

pic seems related to thread

"To feel the pain is to feel yourself connected with all living things, to feel the melancholy of the pain is to see yourself reflected in all living things."

I've come up with a bunch of trash in the past, but I've always particularly liked this one.

>>4502452
>"You can't step in the same river twice."
but history repeats itself

>>4502467

the nature of certain conflict repeats itself, but not the exact circumstances that bring it about

They don't think it be like it is, but it do.

>>4497326
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg's aphorisms are great, you should check them out OP, you might like them. For example : "Much reading has brought upon us a learned barbarism."

>>4502463
Seems so out of place here, but.....roll

>>4502519
so /b/'s invasion begins

A person's relationship with politics often follows a cycle of three stages: ignorance, activism and apathy.

>>4502537
This is true, heartbreakingly true. What is said is it seems certain elements within politics know this and exploit it.

See: managed democracy/inverted totalitarianism.

I wonder whether or not the wise ones are the ones that go through the cycles, or are apathetic from get go.

>>4498522
I like the first one. The ghost of music in it.

>>4500621
things fall apart nigga, theres a whole book on this already

>>4500621
its called entropy, also the buddhist law of compounded phenomena

Rivers flow while mountains erode and infants grow. Fluctuation is the constant state of creation.

>>4502576
Life is nothing but a packet of anti-entropy.

If suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem then temporary contemplation is appropriate.

The process of death emulates the process of digestion.

There is life in a ripe fruit, but it is teeming when decomposing and filled with worms,

There is God in silence but more so in a simultaneous sneeze.

You can only influence people subtly, through gentle penetration, or possibly not at all.

>>4498283
>>4498283
Oath dude. Some goood shit right here. Dat syllable count.

>>4502613
they don't screen candystripers too hard

>>4497326
Op where in Australia are you from? If you live in Sydney, do you want to get a beer? Wouldn't usually think of asking a stranger from the internet if they'd enjoy a IRL conversation but you seem like a cool dude and I'm always down to meet a fellow writer/thinker. No homo by the way Haha unless you want it to be. Just kidding.

>>4502639
op here and I am only into guys who are dialectic materialists, if you ain't then no deal and no head.

>>4502649
>>4502649
Too bad would have been good to have had a chat with someone who enjoys thinking. I had to Wikipedia dialectic materialism and all it told me was that you're a Gaylord.

>>4502660
put up or shut up faggot

>>4502660
plus I aint into just chatting, we fuck or no deal

>>4502667
I'll let you sick my dick but I'm nervous about fucking a dude. It would take several chats and a serious analysis of your character (and your sexual health record) before I'd consider giving ya one.

>>4502674
who said I was a dude?

>>4502676
Who said you were OP

>>4502681
We all are OP, grill, faggot and should kill ourselves

>>4500818
I know I'm late as fuck with responding, but I'm glad you found it relatable. It's my own. I feel like the phrasing could be a little better, but that's all I got

Art is metaphor, and the metaphor of art

>>4502687
Prove you're Op and when I get back from my travels I'll entertain the idea of becoming a fagit dialectical materialist

"Today OP was fucked with a concise cock."

>>4502639
Hey man, I'm the actual OP lol. I was asleep while that impostor decided to portray me as a fucking faggot. Dude I'd love to get a beer with you (if I could get over my shyness that is) however I live on the opposite side of Australia to you, in Perth.

>>4502730
I am op, this imposter is not real (cause how could he be if our eyes aren't?).

Plus as stated, who said I was a boy with a dingdong, and thus how could I be a faggomotron 9000?

>>4502730
Seriously stop trying to hijack thread, I am the real OP. I am standing up.

>>4502747
Haha I was born in Perth! I believe you, sort of... I take what I read on 4chan with a grain of salt. It's a little bit difficult to get in contact now that there's someone actively trying to sabotage a chill... How would we go about this?

>>4502622
what does this mean?

Trust me, I don't know how i'd prove it but I am the OP, and I can't say I really appreciate people impersonating me.

I'll just stop worrying. From this point on OP is largely dead. Thanks guys. I'm sure as hell not getting a tripcode, so that's out of question.

>>4502771
Aight peace brother. All the best with thinking and writing. Keep on keeping on.

>>4502771
stop trying to be me, anon we can hang where you want to meet up?

>>4502793
0/10

Uncertainty breeds fear.

Here are some more great ones I've read:

"Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret." - Benjamin Disraeli

"Do not imagine you can exorcize what oppresses you in life by giving vent to it in art." -Gustave Flaubert

"At fifty everyone has the face he deserves." - George Orwell
(I remember hearing Christopher Hitchens repeat this very line when asked about his youthful appearance. He was naturally a fan of Orwell.)

"Age either transfigures or petrifies." - Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

"It very seldom happens to a man that his business is his pleasure." - Samuel Johnson

God there are so many of these, I'd have to spend all day to get through them all.

>>4497637

Some more I wrote today:

"How can country, continent or city really be more beautiful than another when they share the sun, the sky, the water and the trees?"

"Don't try to make your actions perfect. Their erratic and impulsive nature give them charm"

I really like these ones. I think I'm getting better.

>>4497326
Op again (for what it means).

Thought I might point out that Hippocrates was essentially the first person known to adopt and invent the style of the aphorism, hence the thread image.

He is perhaps best know for his "Ars longa, vita brevis" or, "Art is long, life is short."

In full (or in certain translations, I believe) the aphorism may take on a new quality of meaning and beauty:

"Art is long, and life short, opportunity fleeting, experience perilous, and decision difficult."

"Vitality brief, art long, occasion precipitous, experiment perilous, judgement difficult."

Whether these were statements of artistic or practical nature is up to use to decide, yet Hippocrates was actually a physician, and his aphorisms can easily be seen as pertaining to the practice of this field in the days of the Ancient Greeks. If we read his whole collection, we see less ambiguous writing such as:

"For extreme diseases, extreme methods of cure, as to restriction, are most suitable."

The more you know.

If you want to learn best, become the teacher not the student.

Niggers, Gypsies, and Jews
Three thou art; All three bad news

We are defined by shared experiences, and those shared experiences exist only as you define them.

>>4503013
>"Don't try to make your actions perfect. Their erratic and impulsive nature give them charm"
I love this one

Aphorisms are aimed at those who find them useless.

"Nigga nigga nigga nigga nigga nigga nigga nigga, I am 100% nigga."

>>4503173

A man is only as good as his worst deed

>>4497739
hear fucking hear

>>4497468
link?

>>4505324
hair fucking hair

>>4505463
har fucking har

>>4505467
h fucking h

>>4505475
fucking

>>4500359

What do you mean by insane?

>>4505482
uckin

>>4500495

I'm not saying my word is final, but I am saying that, according to MY reasoning, aphorisms are not profound. You're free to disagree, but it is most definitely my right to have a reasoned view.

>>4505531
no, its a privilege

>>4505533

What makes you say that?

>>4505529

cki

>>4505534
nothing makes me say it

>>4505542

Then you shouldn't say it.

>>4505547
I mean to say that I am not coerced into doing so.

The last civil war we will ever fight:
those who believe killing is wrong
against
those who believe killing is right.

Read some shit about two Marines getting beaten to death with an RPG tube. Affected me much more than the usual Wiki article.

Difference is a trait all humans have in common.

If you are into depression, read some of Cioran's stuff. I don't know if they can be considered aphorisms though...

>>4498375
jesus christ i swear i've seen that image before. where is it from?

>>4500234
i can totally identify w/ this

>>4505438
Here's da link;

http://www.aphorism4all.com/by_theme.php?th_id=192&p=0

"The art is only as good as the person."

>>4507420

"Life is too short to think off aphorisms every day in the hope one will stick"