Aphorism-wisdom cast in "short forms" is a vital part of biblical literature. It has been valued, too, by modern authors and thinkers such as Nietzsche, Lichtenberg, Kraus, Valéry, Lec, Buber, Heschel and Kafka. Aphorism may express the conviction that the truths of human existence are to be discovered in life's manifold fragments rather than in its totality. Aphoristic thinking seeks to construct various "occasions" of order rather than a total system. Pascal claimed that his "disordered" articulation of thoughts was the only way to intimate the "true order in a fallen world.