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The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.

F. H. Bradley

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
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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Application Encouragement Feeling
There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
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Interest Person Shock
I can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.
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Experience Myself
Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
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Fake Philosophy Truth
The propriety of some persons seems to consist in having improper thoughts about their neighbors.
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Neighbor Person Thinking
Another occupation might have been better.
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Better Choice Job Occupation
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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Goodness Reason Teaching
Up to a certain point every man is what he thinks he is.
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Belief Deep Man Point Self Love Thinking
Religion is rather the attempt to express the complete reality of goodness through every aspect of our being.
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Aspect Attempt Expression Goodness Ourselves Religion
The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
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Care Fear Man
An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.
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Experience Fix Genuine Impression True
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
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
Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.
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Acceptance Goodness Hard Time Knowledge Worst
The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.
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