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.
F. H. BRADLEYIt 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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The propriety of some persons seems to consist in having improper thoughts about their neighbors.
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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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I can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.
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Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct.
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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 secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
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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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Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
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The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
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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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There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth.
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Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.
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The one self- knowledge worth having is to know one’s own mind.
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