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

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

Aphorisms are the true form of the universal philosophy.

Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself.

In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.

Wit as an instrument of revenge is as infamous as art is as a means of sensual titillation.