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F. H. Bradley

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
The propriety of some persons seems to consist in having improper thoughts about their neighbors.
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Neighbor Person Thinking
The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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Death Enemy Knowledge Virtue
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
Another occupation might have been better.
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Better Choice Job Occupation
Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived. It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of their wives at which some men seem to arrive.
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Arrival Children Knowledge Marriage Wife
I can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.
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Experience Myself
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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Answer Brain Oneself Suicide
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
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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Application Encouragement Feeling
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
Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
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Fake Philosophy Truth
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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Attraction Change Economy Help Sympathy Wisdom
An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.
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Experience Fix Genuine Impression True
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
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Admire Happiness Secret
But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.
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Desire Oneself

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