True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.
F. H. BRADLEYReligion is rather the attempt to express the complete reality of goodness through every aspect of our being.
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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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Up to a certain point every man is what he thinks he is.
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The one self- knowledge worth having is to know one’s own mind.
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Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
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The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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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 man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
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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 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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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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Another occupation might have been better.
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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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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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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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