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Philosopher Quotes by Ambrose Bierce
- All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.
- REALITY, n. The dream of a mad philosopher. That which would remain in the cupel if one should assay a phantom. The nucleus of a…
- GNOSTICS, n. A sect of philosophers who tried to engineer a fusion between the early Christians and the Platonists. The former would not go into…
- MONAD, n. The ultimate, indivisible unit of matter (see Molecule). The monad has body without bulk, and mind without manifestation - containing all the powers…
- APHORISM, n. Predigested wisdom. The flabby wine-skin of his brain Yields to some pathologic strain, And voids from its unstored abysm The driblet of an…
- Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum -- "I think that I think, therefore I think that I am;" as close an approach to certainty as any…
- CARTESIAN, adj. Relating to Descartes, a famous philosopher, author of the celebrated dictum, _Cogito ergo sum_ --whereby he was pleased to suppose he demonstrated the…
- All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
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- If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women. — Abigail Adams
- Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity. — Samuel Beckett
- Philosophers are adults who persist in asking childish questions. — Isaiah Berlin