Faith, n. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.
Ambrose BierceTags: humor knowledge belief definitions evidence
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
Ambrose BierceTags: humor satire definitions quotes quotations
An infinite question is often destroyed by finite answers. To define everything is to annihilate much that gives us laughter and joy.
Madeleine L'EngleTags: questions laughter joy definitions finite
Childhood is both a chronological stage and a mental construct, an existential fact and a locus of desire, a mythological country continuously mapped by grownups in search of their subjectivity in another time and space.
Elizabeth GoodenoughTags: definitions
Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own.
Harold Coffin SyrettTags: humor definitions
Duty is what one expects from others.
Oscar WildeTags: life definitions duty
Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities
Oscar WildeTags: definitions
Every one has experienced how learning an appropriate name for what was dim and vague cleared up and crystallized the whole matter. Some meaning seems distinct almost within reach, but is elusive; it refuses to condense into definite form; the attaching of a word somehow (just how, it is almost impossible to say) puts limits around the meaning, draws it out from the void, makes it stand out as an entity on its own account.
John DeweyTags: words language definitions vocabulary
Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.
Ambrose BierceTags: definitions sports
Network: Any thing reticulated or decussated, at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections [....]
Reticulated: Made of network; formed with interstitial vacuities.
Tags: definitions verbosity
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