Ambrose Bierce Quotes About Reality

• Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Life, Ambition, Reality

  Cynic's Word Book (1906) p. 17

• Jealous, adj. Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Jealous, Reality, Losing

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.115, 谷月社

• Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Reality, Connections, Enthusiasm

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “The Devil's Dictionary: Complete & Unabridged”, p.68, Courier Corporation

• CARTESIAN, adj. Relating to Descartes, author of 'Cogito ergo sum' to demonstrate the reality of human existence. The dictum might be improved 'Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum' 'I think that I think, therefore I think that I am' as close an approach.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Reality, Thinking, Might

• 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 vacuum.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Dream, Philosophy, Reality

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.177, 谷月社

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