The force of the blow depends on the resistance. It is sometimes better not to struggle against temptation. Either fly or yield at once.
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.
More F. H. Bradley Quotes
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His mind is so open – so open that ideas simply pass through it.
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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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True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.
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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 world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.
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One said of suicide, As long as one has brains one should not blow them out. And another answered, 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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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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There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
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Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
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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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Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.
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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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