Simon MayThinkers

The Aphorism is a response to our need for redemption from doubt.

The Aphorism is the enemy of ideologies on account of the fact that its stylistic brevity, suggestiveness, and fragmentary nature mocks the conceit that one can grasp the world as a totality or that one can possess the final truth valid for all people at all times.

Chance is, like a lover, one of those awkward things of which we must be simultaneously slave and master.

The Cynic is one who expects nothing more from life than confirmation of his disappointments.

Failure is life's magnifying glass.

Forgetting is an altogether different skill from the inability to recall.

Hope is always in danger of being a form of resignation.

Humility is distinguished from modesty in that modesty shields us from others, humility from ourselves.

Impatience is not always a vice, but all vices may be forms of impatience.

Irony is a marvelous spice of life, but a paralyzing way of life.

Modesty is distinguished from humility in that modesty shields us from others, humility from ourselves.