1207 Quotations with Phil.
- 61. Ambrose Bierce: BONDSMAN, n. A fool who, having property of his own, undertakes to become respon ...

- 62. Ambrose Bierce: CARTESIAN, adj. Relating to Descartes, a famous philosopher, author of the celeb ...

- 63. Ambrose Bierce: DIARY, n. A daily record of that part of one's life, which he can relate to hims ...

- 64. Ambrose Bierce: DULLARD, n. A member of the reigning dynasty in letters and life. The Dullards c ...

- 65. Ambrose Bierce: EPICURE, n. An opponent of Epicurus, an abstemious philosopher who, holding that ...

- 66. Ambrose Bierce: ESOTERIC, adj. Very particularly abstruse and consummately occult. The ancient p ...

- 67. Ambrose Bierce: FOOL, n. A person who pervades the domain of intellectual speculation and diffus ...

- 68. Ambrose Bierce: GNOSTICS, n. A sect of philosophers who tried to engineer a fusion between the e ...

- 69. Ambrose Bierce: HALF, n. One of two equal parts into which a thing may be divided, or considered ...

- 70. Ambrose Bierce: HEATHEN, n. A benighted creature who has the folly to worship something that he ...

- 71. Ambrose Bierce: IMMORAL, adj. Inexpedient. Whatever in the long run and with regard to the great ...

- 72. Ambrose Bierce: INGRATE, n. One who receives a benefit from another, or is otherwise an object o ...

- 73. Ambrose Bierce: INNATE, adj. Natural, inherent -- as innate ideas, that is to say, ideas that we ...

- 74. Ambrose Bierce: MONAD, n. The ultimate, indivisible unit of matter. (See _Molecule_.) According ...

- 75. Ambrose Bierce: NEWTONIAN, adj. Pertaining to a philosophy of the universe invented by Newton, w ...

- 76. Ambrose Bierce: NOUMENON, n. That which exists, as distinguished from that which merely seems to ...

- 77. Ambrose Bierce: PERIPATETIC, adj. Walking about. Relating to the philosophy of Aristotle, who, w ...

- 78. Ambrose Bierce: PESSIMISM, n. A philosophy forced upon the convictions of the observer by the di ...

- 79. Ambrose Bierce: PHILANTHROPIST, n. A rich (and usually bald) old gentleman who has trained himse ...

- 80. Ambrose Bierce: PHILISTINE, n. One whose mind is the creature of its environment, following the ...

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