APHORISTS

APHORISTS

Theodor W. Adorno

Ambrose Bierce

Josh Billings

Nicolas Chamfort

In order not to find life unbearable, you must accept two things: the damages of time and the injustices of man. Nicolas Chamfort.

Version: There are two things that one must get used to or one will find life unendurable: the damages of time and injustices of men.  

G. K. Chesterton

Emil Cioran

Confucius

Arcady Davidowitz

Brian Eno

Heraclito

Baltasar Gracian

Søren Kierkegaard

Jean de La Bruyère

François de La Rochefoucauld (writer)

Stanisław Jerzy Lec

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Gottfried Leibniz

Lao-Tse

Michel de Montaigne

Friedrich Nietzsche

Eugenio d'Ors

Blaise Pascal

Plato

Marcel Proust

Seneca

I’d rather annoy with the truth than please with adulation.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Arthur Schopenhauer

There is no doubt that / Unquestionably / Undeniably / Undoubtedly, life is given (to) us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome, to be got over.

Fernando Sabater

León Tolstói

Paul Valéry

Oscar Wilde

Ludwig Wittgenstein‎