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I can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.

F. H. Bradley

The propriety of some persons seems to consist in having improper thoughts about their neighbors.
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Neighbor Person Thinking
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
His mind is so open – so open that ideas simply pass through it.
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Ideas Mindset Open Simplicity
The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.
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Best Evil Necessary Possible World
True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.
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Repeat Silence True Willing
Another occupation might have been better.
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Better Choice Job Occupation
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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Alone Finding Himself Man Nature Thinking
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
Few people would not be the worse for complete sincerity.
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People Sincere Worst
There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth.
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Finding Naked Philosophy Truth
An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.
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Experience Fix Genuine Impression True
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
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
The force of the blow depends on the resistance. It is sometimes better not to struggle against temptation. Either fly or yield at once.
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Blow Fly Force Resistance Temptation
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 can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.

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