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Time and being

In a small notebook , made in Jena between 1803 and 1806, entitled Wastebook -"book of waste", it could be translated-, its author, the young Hegel, wrote a hundred aphorisms that, despite the premeditated title...

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2022-06-11

"All actions and attitudes of children are graceful, because they are the luxuriant and immediate offspring of the moment divested of affectation, and free from all pretence."

~Henry Fuseli, Aphorisms

pencil drawing by
(those eyes melt my heart)

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2022-04-09

"Rul jol, lok."

When unsteady, rise.

Brace yourself and push yourself harder above the turbulent winds. Do not seek the safety of the ground. Rise and seek greater glory instead.

--Excerpt from Wisdom of the Flying Gods, a book of dragon aphorisms

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2021-09-23

Margaret, Duchess of Newcastle noted many aphorisms & nuggets of wisdom she associated with her husband.

'That there should be more Praying, and less Preaching; for much Preaching breeds Faction; but much Praying causes Devotion.'

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2021-09-12

“Those who do not think that employment is systemic slavery are either blind or employed.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

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2021-06-21

Female dragonflies sometimes pretend to be dead so as not to communicate with males

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2021-06-14

the moral of the story: “treasure is in the eye of the beholder”? OK OK i will stick to drawing and leave aphorisms to the pros 🤐

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2021-03-21

This is what happens EVERY time I get a "short, funny idea for a cute little comic that won't take more than a few hours to finish".

I swear, in a previous life, I must've been the guy that wanted to make a booklet with aphorisms and ended up writing the Old Testament.

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2020-11-14

"Half of the people lie with their lips; the other half with their tears"
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb (The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms)

🎨Narcissus, Gyula Benczúr, 1881

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2020-01-08

I met Brad Holland fifty years ago this month. I’ve written about him before and will doubtless again -- like today we're having a conversation about his distinctive hand lettering and aphorisms that I’ve long found inviting but never discussed before. https://t.co/kTmKrb2foj

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2018-05-16