The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
F. H. BRADLEYMetaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct.
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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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There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
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The propriety of some persons seems to consist in having improper thoughts about their neighbors.
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True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.
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One said of suicide, As long as one has brains one should not blow them out. And another answered, But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.
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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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An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.
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Up to a certain point every man is what he thinks he is.
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Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.
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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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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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There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth.
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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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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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Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct.
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