is a concise, terse, laconic, or memorable expression of a general truth or principle.
requires a mind that can read as metaphor
– https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphorism
Both Herakleitos and Wittgenstein attempted to resist this impulse. It is not a coincidence that both also wrote aphoristically. Developed in a certain way, a collection of aphorisms invites a reader to see connections for her- or him- self. That is, aphoristic writing can be used to cultivate our ability to see-as. We may be puzzled at first—but then we “get it,” we experience the coalescence of a gestalt. It is the experience of the coalescence that is crucial. It is an experi- ence quite other than that of granting the reasonableness of proposition B, given proposition A.
– from lyric-philosophy
Each of the sentences I write is trying to say the whole thing, i.e., the same thing over and over again; it is as though they were all simply views of one object seen from different angles.
– Ludwig Wittgenstein