Religion is rather the attempt to express the complete reality of goodness through every aspect of our being.
F. H. BRADLEYThe 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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Few people would not be the worse for complete sincerity.
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His mind is so open – so open that ideas simply pass through it.
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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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I can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.
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Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.
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The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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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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The one self- knowledge worth having is to know one’s own mind.
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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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The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.
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Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct.
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The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
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The propriety of some persons seems to consist in having improper thoughts about their neighbors.
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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.
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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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