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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

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
I can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.
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Experience Myself
The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
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Care Fear Man
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
An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.
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Experience Fix Genuine Impression True
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
Few people would not be the worse for complete sincerity.
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People Sincere Worst
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
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
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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Cost exchange Myself Price Run
There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
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Interest Person Shock
Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
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Fake Philosophy Truth
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
True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.
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Repeat Silence True Willing
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
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Admire Happiness Secret
Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct.
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Bad Believe Finding Instinct Physics Reason

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