Aphorisms and Maxims

Nietzsche and Wittgenstein gravitated naturally to aphorisms and maxims

Most of Nietzsche’s work and the most well-known of Wittgenstein’s were these brief and salient sayings, quotes, snippets, tweets, call them what you will

But it took a third member of this illustrious group of philosophical renegades to incorporate this mode of discourse into the very center of his pragmaticist thrust

I am speaking of Charles Sanders Peirce, who must be read with comprehension as the basic philosopher of this trio, even though the other two are presently more celebrated

Peirce will take a century or two to be actually heard over the din of today’s failed academics.

The greatest aphorist who ever lived was one Jesus of Nazareth whose bare-bones sayings flummoxed Nietzsche and may have driven him mad, and so captivated Wittgenstein that his life took a mystical turn that made his attempts to philosophize difficult to say the least.

In any case, Peirce held that all human behavior that has any relevance to the agapaic teleology of his unfinished life work is the product of remembered snippets, phrases, sayings, maxims, aphorisms

Peirce’s prescience was astounding. It is now lost to most, even as the world follows almost all of his anticipations of a better, more positive future.

Triadic Philosophy unashamedly builds on Peirce and on the aphoristic tendencies of his two erstwhile associates.

However fallible words may be, they must play the decisive role in human affairs

And Peirce is utterly correct in saying what others also know — we are moved by words. This was once the power of advertising. Now it is the power of humankind and that is why the times are, in a word, changing

And why I long ago made Twitter my center of operations

This is why I now put my life work into aphoristic form — 99 cent aphoristic Kindle books — forsaking a past life of hard covers and editors and other obstacles to effective, global communication of what Ludwig called the unspeakable

No future philosophy worth the name can be other than a universal, understandable and useful articulation of the truth of things

I claim that earth and heaven are all the same universe and that no one dies

I claim that Consciousness is the pool where we all swim

And various other things that will be articulated as we go