Ambrose Bierce
“PHILOSOPHY, n. A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.”
The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
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Ambrose Bierce
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The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
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Bierce had survived the slaughter at Shiloh and watched the Gilded Age trade one set of certainties for another. His verdict on philosophy isn’t nihilism — it’s the diagnosis of a man who’d stopped expecting any road to arrive anywhere.
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Bleak, funny, and fair — from a man who’d seen enough to earn it. Definitely dinner conversation starters.
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