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The one self- knowledge worth having is to know one’s own mind.

F. H. Bradley

There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth.
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Finding Naked Philosophy Truth
But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.
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Desire Oneself
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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Cost exchange Myself Price Run
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
Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
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Fake Philosophy Truth
Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.
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Acceptance Goodness Hard Time Knowledge Worst
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
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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Goodness Himself Learning Man Reputation Understand World
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
Up to a certain point every man is what he thinks he is.
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Belief Deep Man Point Self Love Thinking
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
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Admire Happiness Secret
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
Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct.
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Bad Believe Finding Instinct Physics Reason
There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
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Interest Person Shock
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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Alone Finding Himself Man Nature Thinking
The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
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Care Fear Man

The one self- knowledge worth having is to know one’s own mind.

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