The aphorism in which I am the first master among Germans, are the forms of ”eternity”; my ambition is to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book — what everyone else does not say in a book.
Friedrich Nietzsche – Aphorism, Communication
In the mountains the shortest route is from peak to peak, but for that you must have long legs. Aphorisms should be peaks: and those to whom they are spoken should be big and tall of stature.
