Inescapable Aphorisms

An aphorism is a novel packed into a single line. - Oleg Vishnepolsky

Good Art seems ancient to its contemporaries and modern to their descendants. - Plutarch

Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's and to God the things that are God's. - Jesus Christ, Matt. 22:21 KJV

Mediocrity is forgiven more easily than talent. - Emil Krotky

Many of those who tried to enlighten were hanged from the lampposts. - Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

One death is a tragedy; a million is a statistic. - unknown, often attributed to Joseph Stalin

A lie told often enough becomes the truth. - Vladimir Lenin

Love the sinner and hate the sin. - St. Augustine of Hippo[3]

Truths are not relative. What are relative are opinions about truth. - Nicolás Gómez Dávila

Love is the only game in which a draw is the most desirable outcome. - Oleg Vishnepolsky

I know what I have given you, I do not know what you have received. - Antonio Porchia

My poverty is not complete: it lacks me. - Antonio Porchia

One lives in the hope of becoming a memory. - Antonio Porchia

I have hardly touched the clay and I am made of it. - Antonio Porchia


These lines drill into our brains and hearts. If you lift a pen and write them down, you get an additional impact. These are powerful words from the broadest range of people.

If you seek out a list of "aphorists" you will find that there are relatively few. The reason. Few people can clarify, condense and reduce big thoughts into just a few words.

I urge you to practice by the exercise of writing things out and working on clarity and brevity.

Say what you mean.

Then stop.

FINI

Tim www.timjohnsonphoto.com