Aphorisms and apothegms Archives

Aphorisms and apothegms

Blinded by the Sight

From actions people have publicly defended with the phrase “hindsight is twenty-twenty.” Getting drunk during an interview with Playboy magazine Failing to complete a two-point conversion against the Wilcox High…

In Short

by Sarah Manguso,

Thirty-six ways of looking at the aphorism

Mad Maxims

by Gordon Pennycook,

From a list of aphorisms generated by randomly recombining the tweets of Deepak Chopra, and used in a study on “the reception and detection of pseudo-profound bullshit” by Gordon Pennycook,…