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View Plans“ ”ESOTERIC, adj. Very particularly abstruse and consummately occult. The ancient philosophies were of two kinds, — exoteric, those that the philosophers themselves could partly understand, and esoteric, those that nobody could understand. It is the latter that have most profoundly affected modern thought and found greatest acceptance in our time.
About Ambrose Bierce
Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce (June 24, 1842 – date of death uncertain; probably late 1912 or early 1914) was an American satirist, critic, short story writer, editor and journalist. He is perhaps most famous for his serialized mock lexicon, The Devil's Dictionary, in which, over the years, he scathed American culture and accepted wisdom by pointing out alternate, more practical definitions for common words.
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Additional quotes by Ambrose Bierce
May it please your honour, crimes are ghastly or agreeable only by comparison.
Destiny, n. A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.
Let the red dawn surmise What we shall do, When this blue starlight dies And all is through.