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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The propriety of some persons seems to consist in having improper thoughts about their neighbors.
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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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Religion is rather the attempt to express the complete reality of goodness through every aspect of our being.
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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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Few people would not be the worse for complete sincerity.
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An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.
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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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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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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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His mind is so open – so open that ideas simply pass through it.
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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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The one self- knowledge worth having is to know one’s own mind.
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The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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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.
F. H. BRADLEY