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Ask HN: What are your favorite aphorisms?

2•DataDaoDe•2h ago
A few came to me over the course of this year.

I was wondering what others have come up with.

Feel free to post your favorites from other authors like Oscar Wilde, etc. but I'd prefer seeing those you yourself have thought of.

Comments

DataDaoDe•2h ago
Here's mine: https://johnfaucett.com/articles/2025/12-31-aphorisms

I haven't looked but I'd imagine they are not so unique and others have come up with similar things before. Personally, I did like this one though:

"The question is the only animal which gives birth to itself."

nacozarina•1h ago
All easy buttons are traps disguised as easy buttons.
reify•27m ago
on Victorian brutality

Spare the rod, spoil the child.

A few of Lacan's,

The Other does not exist.

Desire is the desire of the Other.

We are all mad here.

The universe is the flower of rhetoric.

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