We Are What We Think

About this book

What sets wise words apart from the clichs and soundbites we encounter every day When a saying has the power to reach out and change your life it is no longer a platitude or a proverb but an aphorism. Self-confessed aphorism addict James Geary takes a whimsical humorous tour through the history of this remarkable subject and its extraordinary practitioners. With a scope that reaches from the ancient Eastern prophets to American one-liners from the Greek and Roman Stoics to the great German philosophers the books focus is life the universe and everything.