Niko's Picks for 2025
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January 2, 2026 at 12:34 AM
Niko's Picks for 2025
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You and I both know that this guy is not equipped to operate effectively in this political climate. 70’s and 80’s aphorisms and remonstrations but negligible personal involvement with the great unwashed. Good at creating briefs and speeches though.
January 2, 2026 at 12:33 AM
You and I both know that this guy is not equipped to operate effectively in this political climate. 70’s and 80’s aphorisms and remonstrations but negligible personal involvement with the great unwashed. Good at creating briefs and speeches though.
"Those who talk too little usually know it, those who talk too much usually don’t."
Aphorisms by James Richardson
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Aphorisms by James Richardson
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American Poetry Review - James Richardson - "Vectors 6.2: Just Saying"
Published in American Poetry Review - Volume 54 | No. 06
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January 1, 2026 at 5:03 PM
"Those who talk too little usually know it, those who talk too much usually don’t."
Aphorisms by James Richardson
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Aphorisms by James Richardson
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By: alcoholandaphorisms on Wednesday, December 31, 2025
By: alcoholandaphorisms on Wednesday, December 31, 2025
Tasting Notes: Artmonster: The Legend Of The Fall DIPA
Artmonster: The Legend Of The Fall DIPA (South Korea: IIPA: 7.8% ABV) Visual: Clear pale yellow gold body with a massive mounded white head. Or so I think it was, the lighting in the bar made it ha…
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By: alcoholandaphorisms on Wednesday, December 31, 2025
By: alcoholandaphorisms on Wednesday, December 31, 2025
Grateful to all my beautiful friends in my phone this year here's to more japes and jokes and bits and aphorisms and witticisms in 2026
January 1, 2026 at 2:39 AM
Grateful to all my beautiful friends in my phone this year here's to more japes and jokes and bits and aphorisms and witticisms in 2026
Since aphorisms are so popular
"One who asks a question feels like a fool for a moment. One who refuses to ask a question feels a fool for a lifetime."
Or, a sentient race remains a fool for millennia.
"One who asks a question feels like a fool for a moment. One who refuses to ask a question feels a fool for a lifetime."
Or, a sentient race remains a fool for millennia.
January 1, 2026 at 12:47 AM
Since aphorisms are so popular
"One who asks a question feels like a fool for a moment. One who refuses to ask a question feels a fool for a lifetime."
Or, a sentient race remains a fool for millennia.
"One who asks a question feels like a fool for a moment. One who refuses to ask a question feels a fool for a lifetime."
Or, a sentient race remains a fool for millennia.
Since aphorisms are so popular
"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people."
- Eleanor Roosevelt
"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people."
- Eleanor Roosevelt
January 1, 2026 at 12:45 AM
Since aphorisms are so popular
"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people."
- Eleanor Roosevelt
"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people."
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Julian Langer – Rabbi Yaakov Meir Zalkind: Aphorisms, Short Stories, Essays and Fragments (a book review)
Julian Langer – Rabbi Yaakov Meir Zalkind: Aphorisms, Short Stories, Essays and Fragments (a book review)
www.anarchistfederation.net
January 1, 2026 at 12:30 AM
Julian Langer – Rabbi Yaakov Meir Zalkind: Aphorisms, Short Stories, Essays and Fragments (a book review)
Zen retreat, thanks autocarrot.
The author (Edward Espe Brown, monk, cook, and sex pest) annotates all the recipes with little aphorisms and observations of daily life at Tassajara. It is Intensely Sixties.
The author (Edward Espe Brown, monk, cook, and sex pest) annotates all the recipes with little aphorisms and observations of daily life at Tassajara. It is Intensely Sixties.
December 31, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Zen retreat, thanks autocarrot.
The author (Edward Espe Brown, monk, cook, and sex pest) annotates all the recipes with little aphorisms and observations of daily life at Tassajara. It is Intensely Sixties.
The author (Edward Espe Brown, monk, cook, and sex pest) annotates all the recipes with little aphorisms and observations of daily life at Tassajara. It is Intensely Sixties.
They're never using any Chinese aphorisms, I'll tell you that right now
December 31, 2025 at 10:39 PM
They're never using any Chinese aphorisms, I'll tell you that right now
Also Prof G's entire schtick, along with milquetoast leftist aphorisms.
December 31, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Also Prof G's entire schtick, along with milquetoast leftist aphorisms.
2025 was the year, I think, when I saw the super-rich publicly described as enemies of people everywhere, not just in folkloric aphorisms from familiar oddballs, but spreading in the conventional wisdom of voting populations.
The existence of billionaires is now wrong in principle, as well as fact.
The existence of billionaires is now wrong in principle, as well as fact.
December 31, 2025 at 3:57 PM
2025 was the year, I think, when I saw the super-rich publicly described as enemies of people everywhere, not just in folkloric aphorisms from familiar oddballs, but spreading in the conventional wisdom of voting populations.
The existence of billionaires is now wrong in principle, as well as fact.
The existence of billionaires is now wrong in principle, as well as fact.
Wasn't even offended, really (I barely talk to her anyway). But I did feel bad for my aunt who will get a bunch of trite vaguely Christian aphorisms at her funeral
December 31, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Wasn't even offended, really (I barely talk to her anyway). But I did feel bad for my aunt who will get a bunch of trite vaguely Christian aphorisms at her funeral
"Author: Julian LangerTitle: Rabbi Yaakov Meir Zalkind: Aphorisms, Short Stories, Essays and Fragments (a book review)Date: 30/12/2025Source: https://ecorevoltblog.wordpress.com/articles-essays-poems-and-more/
I have read this collection of writings, [2/2]
I have read this collection of writings, [2/2]
December 31, 2025 at 2:10 PM
"Author: Julian LangerTitle: Rabbi Yaakov Meir Zalkind: Aphorisms, Short Stories, Essays and Fragments (a book review)Date: 30/12/2025Source: https://ecorevoltblog.wordpress.com/articles-essays-poems-and-more/
I have read this collection of writings, [2/2]
I have read this collection of writings, [2/2]
Julian Langer - Rabbi Yaakov Meir Zalkind: Aphorisms, Short Stories, Essays and Fragments (a book review)
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/rabbi-yaakov-meir-zalkind-aphorisms-short-stories-essays-and-fragments-a-book-review?v=1767109350 [1/2]
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/rabbi-yaakov-meir-zalkind-aphorisms-short-stories-essays-and-fragments-a-book-review?v=1767109350 [1/2]
Rabbi Yaakov Meir Zalkind: Aphorisms, Short Stories, Essays and Fragments (a book review)
Julian Langer Rabbi Yaakov Meir Zalkind: Aphorisms, Short Stories, Essays and Fragments (a book review) 30/12/2025
theanarchistlibrary.org
December 31, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Julian Langer - Rabbi Yaakov Meir Zalkind: Aphorisms, Short Stories, Essays and Fragments (a book review)
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/rabbi-yaakov-meir-zalkind-aphorisms-short-stories-essays-and-fragments-a-book-review?v=1767109350 [1/2]
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/rabbi-yaakov-meir-zalkind-aphorisms-short-stories-essays-and-fragments-a-book-review?v=1767109350 [1/2]
Легше бути мудрим ...
Франсуа де Ларошфуко
Il est plus aisé d'être sage ...
La Rochefoucauld
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#мудрість #самопізнання #людськаприрода #мораль #афоризми
#wisdom #selfknowledge #humannature #morality #aphorisms
Франсуа де Ларошфуко
Il est plus aisé d'être sage ...
La Rochefoucauld
buymeacoffee.com/valdeloir/jo...
#мудрість #самопізнання #людськаприрода #мораль #афоризми
#wisdom #selfknowledge #humannature #morality #aphorisms
Франсуа де Ларошфуко — Сусіди.
Post by Сусіди.
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December 31, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Легше бути мудрим ...
Франсуа де Ларошфуко
Il est plus aisé d'être sage ...
La Rochefoucauld
buymeacoffee.com/valdeloir/jo...
#мудрість #самопізнання #людськаприрода #мораль #афоризми
#wisdom #selfknowledge #humannature #morality #aphorisms
Франсуа де Ларошфуко
Il est plus aisé d'être sage ...
La Rochefoucauld
buymeacoffee.com/valdeloir/jo...
#мудрість #самопізнання #людськаприрода #мораль #афоризми
#wisdom #selfknowledge #humannature #morality #aphorisms
"An aphorism is not an argument . . . "
"Can it be that the literature of aphorisms teaches us the sameness of wisdom (as anthropology teaches us the diversity of culture) . . . "
"Aphoristic thinking is impatient thinking . . . "
"RECURSIVE HOPE GLIMMERS . . . "
AMERICAN SPRING
MADE IN USA 2026
"Can it be that the literature of aphorisms teaches us the sameness of wisdom (as anthropology teaches us the diversity of culture) . . . "
"Aphoristic thinking is impatient thinking . . . "
"RECURSIVE HOPE GLIMMERS . . . "
AMERICAN SPRING
MADE IN USA 2026
December 30, 2025 at 8:52 PM
"An aphorism is not an argument . . . "
"Can it be that the literature of aphorisms teaches us the sameness of wisdom (as anthropology teaches us the diversity of culture) . . . "
"Aphoristic thinking is impatient thinking . . . "
"RECURSIVE HOPE GLIMMERS . . . "
AMERICAN SPRING
MADE IN USA 2026
"Can it be that the literature of aphorisms teaches us the sameness of wisdom (as anthropology teaches us the diversity of culture) . . . "
"Aphoristic thinking is impatient thinking . . . "
"RECURSIVE HOPE GLIMMERS . . . "
AMERICAN SPRING
MADE IN USA 2026
“…aphorisms have functioned as ancestors, allies, or antagonists to grand systems of philosophy.”
(one of my favourite reads this year)
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
(one of my favourite reads this year)
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
A Theory of the Aphorism
An engaging look at the aphorism, the shortest literary form, across time, languages, and cultures
press.princeton.edu
December 30, 2025 at 6:06 PM
“…aphorisms have functioned as ancestors, allies, or antagonists to grand systems of philosophy.”
(one of my favourite reads this year)
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
(one of my favourite reads this year)
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
Nietzsche “…deployed aphorisms to attack unexpectedly and from multiple directions the norms of truth and justice that had ruled Western thought since it had been conquered by Platonism and Judeo-Christianity.”
www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/l...
www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/l...
The Long History of a Short Form | Ryan Ruby
The aphorism, from Hippocrates to Maggie Nelson.
www.laphamsquarterly.org
December 30, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Nietzsche “…deployed aphorisms to attack unexpectedly and from multiple directions the norms of truth and justice that had ruled Western thought since it had been conquered by Platonism and Judeo-Christianity.”
www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/l...
www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/l...
“In aphorisms, concepts depart from their accustomed pairings and become embedded in other combinations. An aphorism transforms established ideas, defining the infinite and giving voice to the unspeakable.”
www.themontrealreview.com/Articles/Aph...
www.themontrealreview.com/Articles/Aph...
Aphorism as a Laboratory of Thinking
The aphorism, a captivating literary genre, embodies the principle of 'the greatest in the smallest...'
www.themontrealreview.com
December 30, 2025 at 5:57 PM
“In aphorisms, concepts depart from their accustomed pairings and become embedded in other combinations. An aphorism transforms established ideas, defining the infinite and giving voice to the unspeakable.”
www.themontrealreview.com/Articles/Aph...
www.themontrealreview.com/Articles/Aph...
Does it matter they're not real? Stoic-inspired aphorisms in the style of Seneca and Marcus Aurelius:
1003. The mind that requires comfort will never know peace.
Lesson: True tranquility comes from independence, it's not conditional on external factors.
#stoicism
1003. The mind that requires comfort will never know peace.
Lesson: True tranquility comes from independence, it's not conditional on external factors.
#stoicism
December 30, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Does it matter they're not real? Stoic-inspired aphorisms in the style of Seneca and Marcus Aurelius:
1003. The mind that requires comfort will never know peace.
Lesson: True tranquility comes from independence, it's not conditional on external factors.
#stoicism
1003. The mind that requires comfort will never know peace.
Lesson: True tranquility comes from independence, it's not conditional on external factors.
#stoicism
Individual and collective inferiority is at the root of #nationalism.
December 30, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Individual and collective inferiority is at the root of #nationalism.
AI promises frictionless thinking. Aphorisms add friction on purpose. One flatters you into outsourcing your soul; the other pokes a hole in your rut and asks if it’s a grave. Easy is efficient. Hard is alive.
Aphoristic Intelligence Beats Artificial Intelligence - The Atlantic
It’s not just okay for some things in life to be hard—it’s essential.
www.theatlantic.com
December 30, 2025 at 11:18 AM
AI promises frictionless thinking. Aphorisms add friction on purpose. One flatters you into outsourcing your soul; the other pokes a hole in your rut and asks if it’s a grave. Easy is efficient. Hard is alive.
if you have a favorite saying, maxim, or aphorism, would love to hear it.
i'm working on a project about aphorisms right now and am very much in the note collecting stage.
i'm working on a project about aphorisms right now and am very much in the note collecting stage.
December 30, 2025 at 2:25 AM
if you have a favorite saying, maxim, or aphorism, would love to hear it.
i'm working on a project about aphorisms right now and am very much in the note collecting stage.
i'm working on a project about aphorisms right now and am very much in the note collecting stage.
Who knew an article on Aphorisms could be enjoyable?
Gift Article for your enjoyment.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Gift Article for your enjoyment.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Aphoristic Intelligence Beats Artificial Intelligence
It’s not just okay for some things in life to be hard—it’s essential.
www.theatlantic.com
December 30, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Who knew an article on Aphorisms could be enjoyable?
Gift Article for your enjoyment.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Gift Article for your enjoyment.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...