aphorism (ăf`ərĭz'əm), short, pithy statement of an evident truth concerned with life or nature; distinguished from the axiom because its truth is not capable of scientific demonstration. Hippocrates Hippocrates , c.460–c.370 B.C., Greek physician, recognized as the father of medicine. He is believed to have been born on the island of Cos, to have studied under his father, a physician, to have traveled for some time, perhaps studying in Athens, and to have
..... Click the link for more information. was the first to use the term for his Aphorisms, briefly stated medical principles. Note his famous opening sentence: "Life is short, art is long, opportunity fleeting, experimenting dangerous, reasoning difficult."

aphorism

Terse formulation of any generally accepted truth or sentiment conveyed in a pithy, memorable statement. The term was first used in the Aphorisms of Hippocrates, a long series of propositions concerning disease and the art of healing. Aphorisms were used especially in dealing with subjects for which principles and methodology developed relatively late, including art, agriculture, medicine, jurisprudence, and politics, but in the modern era they have usually been vehicles of wit and pithy wisdom. Celebrated modern aphorists include Friedrich Nietzsche and Oscar Wilde.

Aphorism

a generalized, finalized, and profound idea of an author, expressed in laconic, refined form; it is distinguished by its apt expressiveness and obvious unexpectedness of judgment. Like a proverb, an aphorism does not prove or document but rather acts on the consciousness through the original formulation of a thought. The expressiveness of aphorisms increases with a decrease in the number of words; about three-fourths of all aphorisms consist of three to five words. Aphorisms are formed both in the context of scientific, philosophical, and artistic works and independently: “Mediocrity is more easily forgiven than talent” (E. Krotkii); “Each hears only what he understands” (J. W. Goethe); “Knowledge is power” (F. Bacon). The verbal fabric of aphorisms permits no changes.

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Uspenskii, L. “Korotko ob aforizmakh.” In the collection Aforizmy. Compiled by E. S. Raize. Leningrad, 1964.
Asemissen, H. U. “Notizen über den Aphorismus.” Trivium. [Zürich,] 1949, no. 2.

A. I. FIURSTENBERG

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No references found	An other related concern that still continues to occupy a place of honor in studies dealing with issues of representations of the Holocaust is Theodore Adorno's famous, oft-contested and now repudiated dictum of the unrepresentability of the Holocaust, stated most aphoristically in his 1949 injunction, "to write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric," which he himself later came to retract in part. Introduction to new work in Holocaust studies by Vasvari, Louise O.; de Zepetnek, Steven Totosy / CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture Somewhat less aphoristically, an earlier published account is given by Axel Madsen in The New Hollywood: American Movies in the '70s at 17 (Crowell Publg. The law reviews: do their paths of glory lead but to the grave? by Doyle, John / Journal of Appellate Practice and Process For Trujillo, this ghastly affair, which first earned him international opprobrium, is aphoristically justified: "great ills require great remedies" (p. Power, will and freedom: Mario Vargas Llosa's The Feast of the Goat by Foley, Andrew / Journal of Literary Studies	Aphanisia aphanite aphanitic Aphanomyces Apharsachites Aphasia aphasic seizure Aphasmidea Aphek Aphelenchoidea Aphelenchoidoidea Aphelinid aphelion Aphelocheiridae apheresis Aphesius aphesperian aphid Aphididae Aphidinea Aphidoidea Aphids, Cereal Aphis aphonia Aphorism aphoristically aphotic zone Aphrah Aphredoderidae aphrodisiac Aphrodisiacs Aphrodite Aphrodite Genetrix Aphrodite Porne Aphrodite Urania Aphroditidae Aphrosalpingidea Aphrosalpingoidea aphrosiderite aphtha aphthitalite aphylactic map projection Aphylidae Aphyllophorales aphyllous aphyric aphytic zone API API scale Apia Apianus, Petrus	Aphorim aphorise aphorise aphorised aphorised aphorises aphorises aphorising aphorising aphorism aphorism aphorism Aphorismatic Aphorismatic Aphorisme Aphorisme Aphorismer Aphorismic Aphorismic Aphorismos Aphorismos Aphorisms Aphorisms aphorist aphorist aphoristic aphoristic aphoristic aphoristic expression aphoristical aphoristically aphorists aphorists aphorize aphorize aphorized aphorized aphorizes aphorizes aphorizing aphorizing APHOS APHOSA aphose aphosphorosis aphotic aphotic aphotic Aphotic region Aphotic zone Aphotic zone Aphotic zone APHP APHPPR Aphr APHRA Aphra Behn Aphragmia Aphrah aphrasia aphrasia

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An other related concern that still continues to occupy a place of honor in studies dealing with issues of representations of the Holocaust is Theodore Adorno's famous, oft-contested and now repudiated dictum of the unrepresentability of the Holocaust, stated most aphoristically in his 1949 injunction, "to write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric," which he himself later came to retract in part.

Introduction to new work in Holocaust studies by Vasvari, Louise O.; de Zepetnek, Steven Totosy / CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

Somewhat less aphoristically, an earlier published account is given by Axel Madsen in The New Hollywood: American Movies in the '70s at 17 (Crowell Publg.

The law reviews: do their paths of glory lead but to the grave? by Doyle, John / Journal of Appellate Practice and Process

For Trujillo, this ghastly affair, which first earned him international opprobrium, is aphoristically justified: "great ills require great remedies" (p.

Power, will and freedom: Mario Vargas Llosa's The Feast of the Goat by Foley, Andrew / Journal of Literary Studies

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