Aphorisms: Volume One: 1994 - 2013

Aphorisms: Volume One: 1994-2013

448. What is a collection of aphorisms really, anyway, but a long sigh of self-celebration?

740. Is it possible to think aphoristically?

1531. Were I to go through each of these aphorisms one at a time, I could checkmark the ones I still agree with and ex-mark the ones I no longer agree with. And were I to do this annually, the checkmarks and ex-marks would ebb and flow in maddening uncertainty. And certainly at the end of my life there will be some aphorisms that remained checkmarked all along. But so what?

1637. These aphorisms are, I hope, Heraclitus’s River.

2030. Imbibe a book and be told or chew an aphorism and discover.

3758. These aphorisms are biographies of ideas. I am incidental.

3881. When I can’t turn my mind off in the middle of the night, I might as well gel the thoughts into aphorisms.

3967. Aphorisms, like poems and plays, leave room for the reader.

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805. Would you kill God, if He asked you to and made it so you could?

1084. Sometimes the words taste too good to not say.

1141. Don’t agree with me. Agree with what is right. And hopefully we’ll agree.

1508. Why should one not love everyone as much as one loves those one loves most?

1712. From the peaks of different mountains we debate.

1749. The cursed clown spent his days laughing at the jest of the gods.

1763. Were I her shoes, I would all day heavenward gaze.

1826. Who’s to blame? Everyone. And the dissemination of degrees is a petty distraction, a nauseating flaunting of self-righteous defensiveness, a pathetic eagerness to help others with their accountability.

1863. Great actors feast upon the lines of Shakespeare; all the rest are eaten by them.

1996. Vigorously rub two myths together to ignite a war.

2007. Emotions are the colors taken by the flame of desire.

2020. Excessive deregulation promises rapid growth followed by a horrid plummet. Excessive regulation promises stagnation followed by excessive deregulation.

2182. With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right. That is my religion.

2194. We make plans so Life has something at which to laugh.

2485. What are we but a brief personification of dirt, a fast frenzy of self-absorbed drama, and then, poof, we are gone, as if we never existed at all.

2522. Is the world your prison, your museum, or your raw material?

2778. Between the extremes of “Everything Too Little” and “Nothing Too Much” is “You Flourishing”.

3293. Beware your inner dialogues. They froth with lies.

3706. Philosophy doesn’t so much stroll as stumble along.

3746. There is no secret joy lurking in the bottomless pit of our appetites.

3773. The mouthpiece can be killed, but how do the threatened lop off the head of the zeitgeist?

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d.hues is a thinly sketched persona of the Cartesian Demon. His character has a wife, kids, and a company job. He is an undeveloped stereotype who does not matter. What matters only are your feelings about the ideas explored under this nom de plume.