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.
F. H. BRADLEYThere are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth.
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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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There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth.
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The one self- knowledge worth having is to know one’s own mind.
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But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.
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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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There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
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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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His mind is so open – so open that ideas simply pass through it.
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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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True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.
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The propriety of some persons seems to consist in having improper thoughts about their neighbors.
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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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The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.
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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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