The cost of a thing is what I call life which has to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
F. H. BRADLEYThe cost of a thing is what I call life which has to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
F. H. BRADLEYBut when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.
F. H. BRADLEYWhere everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.
F. H. BRADLEYThe man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
F. H. BRADLEYMy 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.
F. H. BRADLEYThe propriety of some persons seems to consist in having improper thoughts about their neighbors.
F. H. BRADLEYThere are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth.
F. H. BRADLEYAdam 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.
F. H. BRADLEYHis mind is so open – so open that ideas simply pass through it.
F. H. BRADLEYI can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.
F. H. BRADLEYI will begin with the self-styled “Christian” party, who profess to base their morality on the New Testament. But whether it is really more Christian to follow or to ignore the teachings of the Gospels I shall not discuss.
F. H. BRADLEYUp to a certain point every man is what he thinks he is.
F. H. BRADLEYWe say that a girl with her doll anticipates the mother. It is more true, perhaps, that most mothers are still but children with playthings.
F. H. BRADLEYThe hunter for aphorisms on human nature has to fish in muddy water, and he is even condemned to find much of his own mind.
F. H. BRADLEYThe 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.
F. H. BRADLEYAnother occupation might have been better.
F. H. BRADLEY