Showing results for "Aphorisms" in Literature & Fiction

Dive into the wit and wisdom of Oscar Wilde, who in 1894 unveiled two remarkable collections of aphorisms A Few Maxims For The Instruction Of The Over-Educated, published in the Saturday Review, and Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young, featured in The Chameleon, an Oxford student magazine. These collections are a delightful blend of humor, intellect, and paradox, encapsulating Wildes signature style. Since then, numerous compilations of his aphorisms have emerged, echoing his enduring influence and sharp insights. Join us as we explore the profound and playful reflections of one ...

These aphorisms are impressive independently as well as insightful to Kafka's thinking. He carefully numbered and kept them on separate pages. A must-listen to understand Kafka's thinking.

Dive into Nietzsches critique of Wagners music, characterized as degenerate, crude, and unintelligent. Nietzsche connects this depiction to the declining German culture and society. The translator presents a comprehensive introduction to these compelling thoughts.

Poetry is an act of contrition. It's the art of looking at life in a painfully honest way. Poetry uses metaphors to capture life's intricate complications where plain, obvious and straightforward language fails. This book explores those metaphors like the tax collector. Your difficult relationship is like an invisible tax collector taking its cut from your mental health bank account. Your stress is a mental health tax collector. Your fear of engaging with loss, pain, addiction, denial is your tax collector and it will keep collecting and collecting until you do something about it.

Hubo un tiempo en que la literatura se plagó de Aforismos. Tanto los filósofos como los escritores tuvieron la tentación de escribir algunos de gran profundidad. Pero el paso del tiempo es implacable ya que acumula demasiado y es cuando ha convertido al Aforismo, esa astilla del pensamiento según Alfonso Reyes, en un lugar de resonancia común.Pero cuando los aforismos alcanzan los elevados niveles de elegía como es el caso de los pronto a leer por usted, se revitaliza esta expresión literaria, cimbrando antes nuestra alma.