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Viking Book of Aphorisms: A Personal Selection
Viking Book of Aphorisms A Personal Selection Author:W. H. Auden & Louis Kronenberger Here are words of wisdom from nearly five hundred writers, from Socrates to Virginia Woolf, chosen by two literary masters. Wise, sardonic, moving and amusing, more than three thousand quotations make this a treasury of ideas, delightful to dip into and guaranteed to furnish a remark suitable for almost any occasion. — An aphorism is a general tr... more »uth expressed pithily and making a wise, often ironic, comment on human behavior. "The aphorist," according to the editors, "does not argue or explain, he asserts." This brilliant selection of assertions - divided into such categories as Humanity, Religion, and God, Education, the Sexes and the Arts - is drawn from Aristotle, Seneca, Saint Teresa, Goethe, Freud, Shaw and many other sages of the western world. An index of authors and a key-word index make it easy to find aphorisms either by source or by particular topic, such as food, beauty, love, patriotism, old age or jealousy. But the reader who just dips into the book anywhere, will find a feast of insight, illumination and wit.« less