Alfred CornThinkers

The Aphorism teaches that the felt impression of truth is partly a rhythmic or even a musical sensation.

The Aphorism is a fiction, otherwise they would be no more striking than the morning paper. In fact, the best aphorisms are poems or novels in capsule form.

Choice is always error. Even in refusing to choose, we choose, and thus err then as well.

The Coward is any man who displays cruelty toward his subordinates.

Divorce often brings an honesty and directness, an intimacy, that was unavailable during marriage.

Jargon is often the cause of a confusion that is not our fault. After several tries, if we don't understand an author, the suspicion hardens that he didn't, either.

Laughter is the homage that reason pays to unreason.

Metaphor sleeps around.

The Mirror , if gazed at too long, becomes stagnant.

A Mirror is stagnant if gazed at too long.

Modernity is based on the desire to be independent, to follow no law but the commandments of desire.

Reading is no easy task when setting about to read difficult authors. When, after several tries, we don't understand an author, the suspicion hardens that he didn't, either.