I can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.
F. H. BRADLEYBut when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.
More F. H. Bradley Quotes
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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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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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The one self- knowledge worth having is to know one’s own mind.
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Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
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An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.
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True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.
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One said of suicide, As long as one has brains one should not blow them out. And another answered, But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.
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The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct.
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Another occupation might have been better.
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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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There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth.
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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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Religion is rather the attempt to express the complete reality of goodness through every aspect of our being.
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The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
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