The one self- knowledge worth having is to know one’s own mind.
F. H. BRADLEYI 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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There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth.
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Up to a certain point every man is what he thinks he is.
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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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Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.
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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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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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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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There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
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Few people would not be the worse for complete sincerity.
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The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.
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The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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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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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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Another occupation might have been better.
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I can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.
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