A Book of Aphorisms Today, April 6, is my birthday. As usual, when is my birthday, I do not just receive gifts, I offer one also: A book of aphorisms. How to become a philosopher? As Jesus, the son of Sirach, said, you need to see wisdom. And then try…

Opusul războiului nu e armistițiul, ci pacea. Ca să știi că o țară preferă războiul păcii, uită-te la câte războaie putea să evite și a evitat și la câte războaie putea să evite și nu a evitat: dacă acea țară nu a evitat mai multe războaie decât câte a evitat…

Trecând pe lângă un cimitir Treci pe lângă un cimitir. Te uiți la el. Știi că unii oameni au murit. Și te întrebi: Sunt justificat să cred că toți oamenii, chiar și cei are încă nu au murit, vor muri? Știu eu că omul nu poate fi…

Solving the problem of induction. Are we justified to infer the universal from the particular? If all the swans that we see are white, are we justified to believe that all swans are white? That is the problem of induction.[1] How to solve it? If a swan cannot be different…

The general By the same means you lose a thing you also gain its opposite, in religion, art, philosophy and science.[1] The particulars Science: By the same means you no longer know the Unknown you also know the Known. By the same test you discover what is false you also…

As I interpret Immanuel Kant’s What is Enlightenment?, by the same means you lose your mind’s tutor you also begin to use it yourself.

To know if a man is a fraud, see if he teaches you one thing and does another.[1] A fraud says one thing and does another: He turns his own words into lies. The writer is his writings: The aphorist, his aphorisms; the poet, his poems; the novelist, his novels…