“Prejudice is a vagrant opinion without visible means of support.”
More from Ambrose Bierce on Philosophy
“You scoundrel, you have wronged me," hissed the philosopher, "May you live forever!”
“Cynicism is that blackguard defect of vision which compels us to see the world as it is instead of as it should be.”
“Destiny n: a tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.”
“Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.”
“Admiration: Our polite recognition of another man's resemblance to ourselves.”
Others on Philosophy
Christopher Hitchens
22 quotes“To the dumb question "Why me?" the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply: why not?”
Ludwig Wittgenstein
22 quotes“I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.”
Nietzsche
22 quotes“Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.”
Carl Jung
21 quotes“I simply believe that some part of the human Self or Soul is not subject to the laws of space and time.”
Immanuel Kant
20 quotes“An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.”
Heraclitus
19 quotes“Nothing endures but change.”
H. L. Mencken
17 quotes“A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is the man who finds...”
C.S. Lewis
15 quotes“For the Present is the point at which time touches eternity.”
Napoleon
14 quotes“Circumstances-what are circumstances? I make circumstances.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky
14 quotes“I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.”
Samuel Beckett
14 quotes“We always find something, eh Didi, to let us think we exist?”
Joseph Conrad
13 quotes“What makes mankind tragic is not that they are the victims of nature, it is that they are conscious of it.”