If you are a libertarian, your answer will be: "There shouldn't be public parks." For the rest of us the first question is going to be: "What the heck are the Seven Aphorisms?" A short answer: They ...

With the whales decision behind us, let's turn to the Summum case. This morning, lawyers went before the High Court to argue the big free speech case. A refresher: In 1971, Pleasant Grove City, Utah, ...

(CN) - A city in Utah can block followers of the Summum faith from displaying their "Seven Aphorisms" monument in a public park, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously on Wednesday. The justices ...

The technical definition of an aphorism is a “pithy observation that contains a general truth,” and it is the pith that gets us more than the truth; it is the tone that seals the writer to the words.

A few years ago, through the graces of an independent press, I put out a book of aphorisms. That is, a collection of brief, disconnected, somewhat philosophical sentences. Looking back, this fact ...

a world flooded with marketing slogans, sound bytes and self-help lists, Professor of English and Creative Writing James Richardson admits to having had moments of concern about how his own book of ...

THE best aphorisms are pointed expressions of the results of observation, experience, and reflection. They are portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feeling. They furnish the ...

A few aphorisms from Simone Weil, the 20th century French mystic, from her book “Gravity and Grace,” which I bought at a fantastic bookstore in London this past summer because I saw it on the shelf ...