What did Ambrose Bierce mean by: Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable. - Ambrose Bierce Journalist · USA Copy
+ What is worth doing is worth the trouble of asking somebody to do it. Explain Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 11, 2024, Ambrose Bierce, Asking, Work, 0 - Ambrose Bierce Journalist · USA
+ The ghost is the outward and visible signs of an inward fear. Explain Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 11, 2024, Ambrose Bierce, Fear, Inward, Spiritual Life, 0 - Ambrose Bierce Journalist · USA
+ Doubt is the father of invention. Feraz Zeid, August 4, 2023December 12, 2023, Ambrose Bierce, Doubt, Father, Stupidity, 0 - Ambrose Bierce Journalist · USA
+ Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is – it is her shadow. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Ambrose Bierce, Doubt, Shadow, 0 - Ambrose Bierce Journalist · USA
+ Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math. Feraz Zeid, October 3, 2023December 26, 2023, Ambrose Bierce, Math, Money, 0 - Ambrose Bierce Journalist · USA
+ Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs. Explain Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 11, 2024, Ambrose Bierce, Courage, Peace, Sarcastic, 0 - Ambrose Bierce Journalist · USA
+ Self-denial is indulgence of a propensity to forego. Feraz Zeid, July 25, 2023December 12, 2023, Ambrose Bierce, Denial, Indulgence, Self, 0 - Ambrose Bierce Journalist · USA
+ Doubt begins only at the last frontiers of what is possible. Feraz Zeid, September 26, 2023December 24, 2023, Ambrose Bierce, Doubt, Frontiers, 0 - Ambrose Bierce Journalist · USA
It is excruciating to be an unbeliever with a spirit that is deeply religious. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Nothing is lost and nothing is created in the operations of art as those of nature. - Louis Pasteur Microbiologist · France
But sure there is need of other remedies than dreaming, a weak contention of art against nature. - Michel de Montaigne Philosopher · France
If I were of the trade, I should naturalize art as much as they “artialize” nature. - Michel de Montaigne Philosopher · France
The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life. - Jean Giraudoux Playwright · France
Healing,’ Papa would tell me, ‘is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.’ - W. H. Auden Poet · England
