His mind is so open – so open that ideas simply pass through it.
F. H. BRADLEYThe 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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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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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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The one self- knowledge worth having is to know one’s own mind.
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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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Another occupation might have been better.
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Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct.
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But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.
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The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
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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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There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
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I can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.
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The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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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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True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.
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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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