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— Elias Canetti"The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other well."
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The aphorism, the apothegm, in which I am the first among the Germans to be a master, are the forms of “eternity”; it is my ambition to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book — what everyone else does not say in a book.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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An aphorism is never exactly true; it is either a half-truth or one-and-a-half truths.
— Karl Kraus
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