Aphorisms by Gerald Brenan
Gerald Brenan was an English author who lived most of his life in Spain. As a teenager, he set out to walk to China and got as far as the Balkans before he ran out of money and had to go home. He was a fringe member of the Bloomsbury Group. Brenan’s Thoughts in a [...]
Aphorisms by Henry Stanley Haskins
Henry Stanley Haskins, a well-known financier during the early part of the 20th century, published Meditations in Wall Street anonymously in 1940. It is unclear why he did not want to be associated with the book but Albert Jay Nock, a libertarian thinker and friend of Haskins, managed to provide a 20-page introduction without ever [...]
Why I Like Juggling
The illusion of flight, deft mastery of falling’s art; because to have what you hold you have to throw it away as soon as it’s caught.
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Aphorisms via Ernest A. Seeman
Ernest A. Seeman started his professional life as an academic publisher, then entered international corporate and business law. In 2003, at the age of 74, he says he “decided to shuck it all” and began devoting more time to his true love: translating aphorisms from German. The result is the German-English manuscript Variety is [...]
Aphorisms by Renzo Llorente
Renzo Llorente is chair of the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at Saint Louis University in Madrid, where he has lived since 1998. He teaches philosophy and publishes mainly in the fields of ethics, social philosophy, and Latin American philosophy. He has, he says, “been jotting down aphorisms and fragments for more than twenty [...]
Aphorisms by Jack Gardner
Jack Gardner (see pp. 234-235 of Geary’s Guide) has published a new collection of aphorisms: I Wish I Was the Person I’m Pretending to Be. He has abandoned the cacographic practices of his previous books and taken a more practical, managerial approach, as reflected in his subtitle—”Transform your personal and professional life and become the [...]
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