Philosophers find meaningful careers through denying meaning.
Philosophy
Only the loner can study the crowd.
Human meaning: a poster on the white plaster wall of nature.
Truth eludes us not because there are no certainties in life, but because there are too many.
The pleasure of talking to oneself: who else besides me always and unfailingly desires to discuss exactly the same subjects I do?
Faces are like assumptions: we see with them, we do not see them.
If women cry more than men, as they are stereotyped, they are the deeper sex, plumbing life's magnificent sorrow while the sports-watching, business-traveling, engine-fixing men live practically, that is, practically don't live.
Mr. Stanley’s Aphorisms and Paradoxes are outstanding examples of the long-form aphorism...
inevitably studded with discrete individual aphorisms that could easily stand on their own.
-James Geary, author of The World in a Phrase: A Brief History of the Aphorism
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