Up to a certain point every man is what he thinks he is.
F. H. BRADLEYThe man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
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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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I can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.
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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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Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
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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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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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The one self- knowledge worth having is to know one’s own mind.
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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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An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.
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His mind is so open – so open that ideas simply pass through it.
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But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.
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The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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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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I 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.
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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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