Note: The hobby of building Aphorisms started from my hobby of creating "door slogans" from interesting thoughts from various literary sources such as books, book reviews, and newspaper articles. Today's feature presents some of those slogans.
Aphorism 26: “Consecrate A Purpose!”
Full Quote: “Gandhi was right—like the Bhagavad—Gita—in saying that the whole of one’s resources must be mobilized to consecrate a purpose.” By William F. Buckley, Jr., Stained Glass, Doubleday, p. 69.
Aphorism 27: “Deinstitutionalize Knowledge!”
Full Quote: “the problem with major league baseball, he said, is that it’s a self-populating institution. Knowledge is institutionalized.” The quote is by Vorus McCracken, baseball statistician as quoted by Michael Lewis in Moneyball, W.W. Norton’s Company, N.Y. Lewis’s quote came from www://baseballprospectus.com
Aphorism 28: “The Virtue of Disinterestedness!”
Full Quote: “A presiding spirit in this book is Matthew Arnold, who not only urged us to teach the best that has been thought and said but also advocated the virtue of disinterestedness, which allows for curiosity without dogmatism, skepticism without nihilism, conviction without fanaticism.” A book review: Smiling through the Cultural Catastrophe by Jeffrey Hart, Wall Street Journal, Sept. 21, 2001.
Aphorism 29: “Blurting Is A Form of Bravery!”
Reference: Quote by Susan Larson, Book editor, The Times-Picayune from her book review of Unless by Carol Shields, Sunday, April 28, 2002
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