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.
F. H. BRADLEYIt 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.
F. H. BRADLEYThe one self- knowledge worth having is to know one’s own mind.
F. H. BRADLEYThe hunter for aphorisms on human nature has to fish in muddy water, and he is even condemned to find much of his own mind.
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.
F. H. BRADLEYWe say that a girl with her doll anticipates the mother. It is more true, perhaps, that most mothers are still but children with playthings.
F. H. BRADLEYBut when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.
F. H. BRADLEYThe cost of a thing is what I call life which has to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
F. H. BRADLEYThe 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.
F. H. BRADLEYWhere everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.
F. H. BRADLEYAdam 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.
F. H. BRADLEYReason teaches us that what is good is good for something, and that what is good for nothing is not good at all.
F. H. BRADLEYMetaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct.
F. H. BRADLEYEclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
F. H. BRADLEYHis mind is so open – so open that ideas simply pass through it.
F. H. BRADLEYThe deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
F. H. BRADLEYThe propriety of some persons seems to consist in having improper thoughts about their neighbors.
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