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I can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.

F. H. Bradley

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
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Admire Happiness Secret
There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
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Interest Person Shock
But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.
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Desire Oneself
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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Attraction Change Economy Help Sympathy Wisdom
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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Cost exchange Myself Price Run
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
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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Himself Human Hunter Mindset Nature Water
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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Beginning Discussion Follow Myself Profession
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
Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.
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Acceptance Goodness Hard Time Knowledge Worst
Up to a certain point every man is what he thinks he is.
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Belief Deep Man Point Self Love Thinking
The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
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Care Fear Man
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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Children Daughter Herself Mom Play
Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
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Fake Philosophy Truth
His mind is so open – so open that ideas simply pass through it.
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Ideas Mindset Open Simplicity
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

I can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.

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