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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.

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
My external sensations are no less private to my self than are my thoughts or my feelings. In either case my experience falls within my own circle, a circle closed on the outside… the whole world for each is peculiar and private to that soul.
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Feeling Privacy Sensation Soul
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
There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
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Interest Person Shock
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
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
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
Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.
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Acceptance Goodness Hard Time Knowledge Worst
The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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Death Enemy Knowledge Virtue
Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct.
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Bad Believe Finding Instinct Physics Reason
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
Few people would not be the worse for complete sincerity.
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People Sincere Worst
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
An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.
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Experience Fix Genuine Impression True
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
Another occupation might have been better.
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Better Choice Job Occupation

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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