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.
F. H. BRADLEYI can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.
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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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Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.
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Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct.
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The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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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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The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.
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Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
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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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The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
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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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I can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.
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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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Up to a certain point every man is what he thinks he is.
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There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
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