The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
F. H. BRADLEYThe one self- knowledge worth having is to know one’s own mind.
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Few people would not be the worse for complete sincerity.
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Up to a certain point every man is what he thinks he is.
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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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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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His mind is so open – so open that ideas simply pass through it.
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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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An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.
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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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There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
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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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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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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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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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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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