Ambrose Bierce Quotes About Contemplation

• MAN, n. An animal so lost in rapturous contemplation of what he thinks he is as to overlook what he indubitably ought to be. His chief occupation is extermination of other animals and his own species, which, however, multiplies with such insistent rapidity as to infest the whole habitable earth and Canada.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Animal, Men, Thinking

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.161, University of Georgia Press

• MAN, n. An animal so lost in rapturous contemplation of what he thinks he is as to overlook what he indubitably ought to be.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Animal, Men, Thinking

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.161, University of Georgia Press

• COMFORT, n. A state of mind produced by contemplation of a neighbor's uneasiness.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Mind, Comfort, Neighbor

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “The Devil's Dictionary: Complete & Unabridged”, p.42, Courier Corporation

• While you have a future do not live too much in contemplation of your past: unless you are content to walk backward the mirror is a poor guide.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Past, Mirrors, Too Much

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.1221, Delphi Classics

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