The force of the blow depends on the resistance. It is sometimes better not to struggle against temptation. Either fly or yield at once.
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.
More F. H. Bradley Quotes
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There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
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His mind is so open – so open that ideas simply pass through it.
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Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct.
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The one self- knowledge worth having is to know one’s own mind.
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An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.
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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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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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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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Religion is rather the attempt to express the complete reality of goodness through every aspect of our being.
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Up to a certain point every man is what he thinks he is.
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I can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.
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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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True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.
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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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