Thursday, June 20, 2013

APTE DICTUM ONE MORE TIME

(This is my fourth installment of “apte dictum” aphoristic entries. For the earlier installments, see November 3rd, 2010; January 7th, 2011; and May 14th, 2011.)

(19-187)
Those who have known no tragedy, have known no glory.

 (19-188)
There are different ways of playing the hero, and martyrdom may well be the easiest of them.

(19-189)
An ultimate act of love cannot sometimes be distinguished from an act of direst hatred…

(19-190)
The hidden agenda of every revolution is Carpe Diem.

(19-191)
All that’s freedom is not good. (Paraphrasing All that glitters is not gold.)

(19-192)
Live Free or Die: The new slogan of modern imperialism.

(19-193)
Any zeal is a form of religion.

(19-194)
The greater the challenge, the richer the reward. The smaller the opposition, the lower the morale of the warrior, and the paltrier his harvest.

(19-195)
They say, “Father of this,” “Father of that.” I ask, Who, in this case, is the Mother?

(19-196)
There is not so much danger in oversimplifying the complicated as in overcomplicating the simple.

(19-197)
Evil-minded philosopher: Philucifer.

(19-198)
My jocular name for Adolf Hitler is “Man Of The Prinzip, as in Führerprinzip.

(19-199)
The rest is… hopefully, nothing…

(19-200)
The modern excesses of financial capitalism have changed the most famous phrase in the United States Declaration of Independence, to read: wealth, property, and the pursuit of affluence.

(19-201)
Man is a force of nature turned into a tool by woman.

(19-202)
Prepare to be unprepared!

(19-203)
Fiat Veritas, Pereat Vita. “Translated” into English as “You cannot handle the truth!” (A Few Good Men.)

(19-204)
The reason for America’s worst troubles as a nation is that she often fails to understand what the Clintonian ‘is’ is.

(19-205)
“The mule loves a heavy burden,” says the proverb. But then, no blasphemy intended, doesn’t Christianity worship the Mule qui tollis peccata mundi? The Lamb is just another aspect of it. (From a “biography.”)

(19-206)
A Bush in the Cheney Shop:” a perfect epigram for that infamous Administration…

(19-207)
It is amazing how many American critics these days are ready to confess America’s impotence and America’s incompetence, rather than to admit that America is wrong.

(19-208)
Paraphrasing Goldwater, criticism in the service of Democracy is a virtue.

(19-209)
Theology is philosophy on sacred ground.

(19-210)
(Courtesy of the Sphinx.) What is wrong with the New American Century?
It’s not the dog, but the fleas!

(19-211)

In most people’s brains, there are not only white cells and gray cells, but also prison cells, in which they incarcerate their God-given free spirit.

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