True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.
F. H. BRADLEYMy 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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There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth.
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The man whose nature is such that by one path alone his chief desire will reach consummation will try to find it on that path, whatever it may be, and whatever the world thinks of it; and if he does not, he is contemptible.
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But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.
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I can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.
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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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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 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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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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The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
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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.
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The one self- knowledge worth having is to know one’s own mind.
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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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Few people would not be the worse for complete sincerity.
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There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
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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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