Ambrose Bierce Quotes About Reality
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Jealous, adj. Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping.
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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.
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Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.
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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.
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Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience.
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