0 a short clever saying that is intended to express a general truth:
1 a short saying that is intended to express a general truth
Their studies provide elegant confirmation of the aphorism that cells that fire together, wire together.
The text is sprinkled with general observations followed by simplistic aphorisms.
This aphorism is obscure as it makes clear neither the meaning of extreme diseases nor that of extreme diet.
There are few abstracts, no philosophizing other than the occasional cynical aphorism.
He used aphorisms to experiment or "live through" propositions for living, but the life he envisioned was the life of the self-creating individual.
The brief space of this presentation lends itself to a narrative of aphorisms.
Like proverbs and aphorisms, gossip provides a valuable communicative code for the symbolic interaction that is taking place within the highly fragmented and segregated social worlds of the old.
Proverbs is a catalogue of 1,100 aphorisms, each tabulated as a set of translation equivalents.