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

F. H. Bradley

There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth.
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Finding Naked Philosophy Truth
It is good to know what a man is, and also what the world takes him for. But you do not understand him until you have learnt how he understands himself.
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Goodness Himself Learning Man Reputation Understand World
My external sensations are no less private to my self than are my thoughts or my feelings. In either case my experience falls within my own circle, a circle closed on the outside… the whole world for each is peculiar and private to that soul.
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Feeling Privacy Sensation Soul
But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.
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Desire Oneself
Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
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Fake Philosophy Truth
The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.
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Best Evil Necessary Possible World
It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.
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Attraction Change Economy Help Sympathy Wisdom
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
I can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.
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Experience Myself
An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.
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Experience Fix Genuine Impression True
Reason teaches us that what is good is good for something, and that what is good for nothing is not good at all.
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Goodness Reason Teaching
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
The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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Death Enemy Knowledge Virtue
We say that a girl with her doll anticipates the mother. It is more true, perhaps, that most mothers are still but children with playthings.
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Children Daughter Herself Mom Play
There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
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Interest Person Shock
Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct.
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Bad Believe Finding Instinct Physics Reason

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