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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
There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
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Interest Person Shock
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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Feeling Privacy Sensation Soul
The force of the blow depends on the resistance. It is sometimes better not to struggle against temptation. Either fly or yield at once.
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Blow Fly Force Resistance Temptation
The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.
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Best Evil Necessary Possible World
The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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Death Enemy Knowledge Virtue
Religion is rather the attempt to express the complete reality of goodness through every aspect of our being.
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Aspect Attempt Expression Goodness Ourselves Religion
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
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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Children Daughter Herself Mom Play
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
Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct.
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Bad Believe Finding Instinct Physics Reason
Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
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Fake Philosophy Truth
But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.
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Desire Oneself
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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Blood Experience Heart Live Ourselves Writing
His mind is so open – so open that ideas simply pass through it.
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Ideas Mindset Open Simplicity
The propriety of some persons seems to consist in having improper thoughts about their neighbors.
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Neighbor Person Thinking

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