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Up to a certain point every man is what he thinks he is.

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
True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.
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Repeat Silence True Willing
Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct.
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Bad Believe Finding Instinct Physics Reason
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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Arrival Children Knowledge Marriage Wife
I can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.
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Experience Myself
Up to a certain point every man is what he thinks he is.
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Belief Deep Man Point Self Love Thinking
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
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
There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth.
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Finding Naked Philosophy Truth
Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.
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Acceptance Goodness Hard Time Knowledge Worst
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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Goodness Himself Learning Man Reputation Understand World
The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
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Care Fear Man
Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
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Fake Philosophy Truth
An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.
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Experience Fix Genuine Impression True
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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Blood Experience Heart Live Ourselves Writing
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

Up to a certain point every man is what he thinks he is.

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