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The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.

F. H. Bradley

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
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Admire Happiness Secret
Few people would not be the worse for complete sincerity.
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People Sincere Worst
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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Answer Brain Oneself Suicide
Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart’s blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink.
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Blood Experience Heart Live Ourselves Writing
Another occupation might have been better.
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Better Choice Job Occupation
The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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Death Enemy Knowledge Virtue
Up to a certain point every man is what he thinks he is.
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Belief Deep Man Point Self Love Thinking
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
Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.
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Acceptance Goodness Hard Time Knowledge Worst
Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct.
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Bad Believe Finding Instinct Physics Reason
I can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.
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Experience Myself
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
His mind is so open – so open that ideas simply pass through it.
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Ideas Mindset Open Simplicity
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
But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.
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Desire Oneself
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

The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.

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