Author James Geary loves aphorisms, those short, witty statements that often contain profound truths. In 2005, he published “The World in a Phrase: A Brief History of the Aphorism,” which is now out ...
THE VIKING BOOK OF APHORISMS (405 pp.) — Selected by W. H. Auden and Louis Kronenberger —Viking ($6.50). An aphorism forces the eye off the page and into the contemplative middle distance; it takes a ...
The aphorism -- a concise and witty observation about the nature of life -- makes up my own favorite kind of reading. To study philosophy takes intellectual determination, but to linger over a shrewd ...
Off and on during my life, I have passed sleepless nights in making up lists of the dozen or so books a person might choose to take along if suddenly marooned on a desert island. This is a relatively ...
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