Aphoristic Quotes 

Being pre-eminently a moralist, he needed a medium that enabled him to illustrate a moral insight as briefly and vividly as possible. Being an artist and sensualist, he needed a medium that was epigrammatic or aphoristic, but allowed him scope for fantasy and for that element of suggestiveness which he considered essential to beauty.
Charles Baudelaire
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For Cioran the aphoristic style is less a principle of reality than a principle of knowing: that it’s the destiny of every profound idea to be quickly checkmated by another idea, which it itself has implicitly generated.

Susan Sontag

— “‘Thinking against oneself’: reflections on Cioran,” p. 79

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Behind every aphoristic assertion there should be the watermark of a question.


— Gregory Norminton, British Novelist and academic. From his Blog, ‘How to be Awake,’ 18th May 2010

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It is in the nature of aphoristic thinking to be always in a state of concluding; a bid to have the final word is inherent in all powerful phrase-making.


— Susan Sontag (1933–2004), American essayist. 'Writing Itself: On Roland Barthes', Introduction, Barthes: Selected Writings (1982)

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