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. BRADLEYTrue penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.
More F. H. Bradley Quotes
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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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Religion is rather the attempt to express the complete reality of goodness through every aspect of our being.
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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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His mind is so open – so open that ideas simply pass through it.
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The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
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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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The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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Up to a certain point every man is what he thinks he is.
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An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.
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The one self- knowledge worth having is to know one’s own mind.
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Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct.
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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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Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.
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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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