TL;DR Truth Bombs - The Essence of Aphorisms with James Geary
About this episode
The episode explores the essence of aphorisms and their role in conveying truth through language.
In one of his Letters Provinciales, the French philosopher and Theologian Blaise Pascal apologises that “I have made this letter longer than usual because I have not had the time to make it shorter”. This is an aphoristic statement that could form one part of the definition of an aphorism: a pithy observation that contains a general truth. There are thousands of well-known aphorisms coming in all manner of media, like the old proverb “a rolling stone gathers no moss”, or the quite recent lyri...
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