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The propriety of some persons seems to consist in having improper thoughts about their neighbors.

F. H. Bradley

Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct.
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Bad Believe Finding Instinct Physics Reason
The one self- knowledge worth having is to know one’s own mind.
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Discover Knowledge Mindset Oneself Worth
But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.
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Desire Oneself
The cost of a thing is what I call life which has to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
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Cost exchange Myself Price Run
Another occupation might have been better.
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Better Choice Job Occupation
The force of the blow depends on the resistance. It is sometimes better not to struggle against temptation. Either fly or yield at once.
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Blow Fly Force Resistance Temptation
His mind is so open – so open that ideas simply pass through it.
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Ideas Mindset Open Simplicity
Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.
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Acceptance Goodness Hard Time Knowledge Worst
An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.
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Experience Fix Genuine Impression True
The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
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Care Fear Man
Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived. It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of their wives at which some men seem to arrive.
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Arrival Children Knowledge Marriage Wife
True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.
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Repeat Silence True Willing
The hunter for aphorisms on human nature has to fish in muddy water, and he is even condemned to find much of his own mind.
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Himself Human Hunter Mindset Nature Water
The Self has turned out to mean so many things, to mean them so ambiguously, and to be so wavering in its application, that we do not feel encouraged.
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Application Encouragement Feeling
I will begin with the self-styled “Christian” party, who profess to base their morality on the New Testament. But whether it is really more Christian to follow or to ignore the teachings of the Gospels I shall not discuss.
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Beginning Discussion Follow Myself Profession
There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
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Interest Person Shock

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