The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
F. H. BRADLEYThere are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth.
More F. H. Bradley Quotes
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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 world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.
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Another occupation might have been better.
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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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Few people would not be the worse for complete sincerity.
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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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An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.
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Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct.
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The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
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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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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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But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.
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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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The propriety of some persons seems to consist in having improper thoughts about their neighbors.
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I can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.
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