The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
F. H. BRADLEYAnother occupation might have been better.
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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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An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.
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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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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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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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I can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.
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The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
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Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
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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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Up to a certain point every man is what he thinks he is.
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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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There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth.
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Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct.
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There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
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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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