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commonEraPractices t1_isoftrr wrote

> Instead of watering pseudo-philosophical ideas down into aphorisms or opinions on how you ought to live, literature turns them into accessible art.

:/ I like watering down stuff into aphorisms.

"An aphorism can never be the whole truth; it is either a half-truth or a truth-and-a-half." Karl Kraus.

This was a pleasant read nevertheless ;) Thanks for sharing! writing!

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lucaruns OP t1_isovazf wrote

This is something that I should have clarified: I meant self-help books in that passage, not philosophy. I adore philosophy and aphorisms (I really like Kierkegaard’s), but the main thing I was trying to say is that self-help books fail in making philosophy accessible where literature succeeds. Thanks for reading!

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