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Reason teaches us that what is good is good for something, and that what is good for nothing is not good at all.

F. H. Bradley

But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.
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Desire Oneself
Another occupation might have been better.
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Better Choice Job Occupation
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
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Admire Happiness Secret
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
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 man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
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Care Fear Man
The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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Death Enemy Knowledge Virtue
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
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
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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Goodness Himself Learning Man Reputation Understand World
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
Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct.
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Bad Believe Finding Instinct Physics Reason
Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.
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Acceptance Goodness Hard Time Knowledge Worst
Up to a certain point every man is what he thinks he is.
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Belief Deep Man Point Self Love Thinking
Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
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Fake Philosophy Truth

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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