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.
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 one self- knowledge worth having is to know one’s 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 propriety of some persons seems to consist in having improper thoughts about their neighbors.
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Up to a certain point every man is what he thinks he is.
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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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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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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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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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But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.
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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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Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.
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His mind is so open – so open that ideas simply pass through it.
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I can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.
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The man whose nature is such that by one path alone his chief desire will reach consummation will try to find it on that path, whatever it may be, and whatever the world thinks of it; and if he does not, he is contemptible.
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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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