Book Description
Gathers witty quotations about nature, religion, fear, hope, fame, wealth, politics, marriage, happiness, knowledge, language, and death
Author : John Gross
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 38,52 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780192804563
Gathers witty quotations about nature, religion, fear, hope, fame, wealth, politics, marriage, happiness, knowledge, language, and death
Author : Ibn 'Ata'illah Al-Iskandari
Publisher : The Other Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 28,42 MB
Release : 2018-05-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9675062614
This book is one of the more widely distributed works of Ibn 'Ata'illah and serves as an ethical guide to those seeking God. It is a collection of short spiritual sayings each containing profound meaning driven from the Qur'an and Sunnah, and deals with issues related to tawhid, ethics and day-to-day conduct.
Author : Wystan Hugh Auden
Publisher :
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 34,52 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Aphorisms and apothegms
ISBN : 9780571095193
Aphorisms are not witticisms or epigrams, but general truths succinctly stated. This anthology contains 3000 quotations from a wide variety of aphorists ranging from Heraclitus to Ogden Nash, as well as Jane Austen, Pascal, Freud, Goethe, the Duke of Wellington, Shaw, Jean Cocteau and many more.
Author : Wystan Hugh Auden
Publisher : Barnes & Noble Publishing
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 10,60 MB
Release : 1962
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780880290562
"More than 3000 selections from more than 400 authors" -- Dust jacket.
Author : Ricardo Lebrija
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 21,41 MB
Release : 2015-07-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1503567648
"Compendium of Aphorisms" is a collection of thoughts, feelings, expressions, and inner reflections imprinted in words. Little pieces of that essence that makes us human, that still separates us from machines. It's an open letter to anyone that relates, that has felt or toyed with the possibility of giving themselves up to experimenting with their heart, that has actually loved or has been loved, that has gone through the rush of a life-changing kiss, the inexplicable euphoria of creating life, the uncontrollable urge to cry, or the majestic experience of making love. "Compendium of Aphorisms" will awaken your senses and open your heart to the possibility of humanizing your world.
Author : Arthur Schopenhauer
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 27,3 MB
Release : 2004-08-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0141921757
One of the greatest philosophers of the nineteenth century, Schopenhauer (1788-1860) believed that human action is determined not by reason but by 'will' - the blind and irrational desire for physical existence. This selection of his writings on religion, ethics, politics, women, suicide, books and many other themes is taken from Schopenhauer's last work, Parerga and Paralipomena, which he published in 1851. These pieces depict humanity as locked in a struggle beyond good and evil, and each individual absolutely free within a Godless world, in which art, morality and self-awareness are our only salvation. This innovative - and pessimistic - view has proved powerfully influential upon philosophy and art, directly affecting the work of Nietzsche, Wittgenstein and Wagner among others.
Author : Dr. Mardy Grothe
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 37,85 MB
Release : 2009-08-25
Category : Reference
ISBN : 0061959588
Perfect for linguaphiles and lovers of quotes, Ifferisms is a lively compendium of wit, wisdom, and wordplay from Dr. Mardy Grothe, author of I Never Metaphor I Didn’t Like, Viva La Repartee, and Oxymoronica. A collection of aphorisms—pithy observations that communicate some kind of truth about the human experience—Ifferisms contains those that begin with “if.” From “If life hands you lemons, make lemonade” to “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it,” the sayings in Ifferisms demonstrate how hypothetical thinking helps people contemplate their lives.
Author : Hippocrates
Publisher : Andesite Press
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 23,72 MB
Release : 2015-08-08
Category :
ISBN : 9781297503245
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Author : Don Paterson
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 17,26 MB
Release : 2018-10-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0571338232
Aphorisms have been described as 'the obscure hinterland between poetry and prose' (New Yorker) - short pithy statements that capture the essence of the human condition in all its shades. In this New and Selected, master of the form Don Paterson brings the best examples from his three previous volumes together with ingenious new material relevant to today's world. Moving and mischievous, canny and profound - these wide-ranging observations of no more than one or two lines demonstrate that the aphorism is the perfect form for our times. Consciousness is the turn the universe makes to hasten its own end. * Agnosticism is indulged only by those who have never suffered belief. * Poet: someone in the aphorism business for the money.
Author : Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Publisher : Random House
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 23,7 MB
Release : 2010-11-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0679643680
The author of the modern classics The Black Swan, Fooled by Randomness, and Antifragile, Nassim Nicholas Taleb expresses major ideas in ways you least expect in this collection of aphorisms and meditations—now expanded with fifty percent more material than the hardcover. The Bed of Procrustes takes its title from the Greek myth of a man who made his visitors fit his bed to perfection, either by stretching them or by cutting their limbs. It represents Taleb’s view of modern civilization’s hubristic side effects—modifying humans to satisfy technology, blaming reality for not fitting economic models, inventing diseases to sell drugs, defining intelligence as what can be tested in a classroom, and convincing people that employment is not slavery. Playful and irreverent, these aphorisms will surprise you by exposing self-delusions you have been living with but never recognized. With a rare combination of pointed wit and potent wisdom, Taleb plows through human illusions, contrasting the classical values of courage, elegance, and erudition with the modern diseases of nerdiness, philistinism, and phonies.