Ambrose Bierce Quotes on Philosophy
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Brain, n. An apparatus with which we think what we think.
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Liberty, n. One of imagination's most precious possessions.
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Optimist, n. A proponent of the doctrine that black is white.
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Philosophy, n. A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.
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Scriptures, n. The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based.
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Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum.
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I keep a conscience uncorrupted by religion, a judgment undimmed by politics and patriotism, a heart untainted by friendships and sentiments unsoured by animosities.
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Platonic Love is a fool's name for the affection between a disability and a frost.
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Religions are conclusions for which the facts of nature supply no major premises.