Have we any aphorists today? I confess I do not know. One might suspect that Twitter, with its strict character limits (I mean that in at least two ways), would be an ideal platform for such a genre of writing, though the attempts, one finds, just don’t come off. They are either too earnest or not clever enough; or they are both.
But I do love aphorisms. (The word comes from a Greek noun that refers to a “delimitation” or definition, and thus by extension means a “pithy sentence.”) Almost nothing else of which I am aware has the same power to provoke thought and stimulate reflection. Thus they are an ideal type of philosophizing.
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