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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.

F. H. Bradley

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
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
Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
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Fake Philosophy Truth
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
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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Blow Fly Force Resistance Temptation
Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct.
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Bad Believe Finding Instinct Physics Reason
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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Goodness Reason Teaching
The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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Death Enemy Knowledge Virtue
But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.
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Desire Oneself
An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.
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Experience Fix Genuine Impression True
Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.
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Acceptance Goodness Hard Time Knowledge 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
The propriety of some persons seems to consist in having improper thoughts about their neighbors.
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Neighbor Person Thinking
Few people would not be the worse for complete sincerity.
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People Sincere Worst
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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Answer Brain Oneself Suicide
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

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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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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