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.
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.
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Few people would not be the worse for complete sincerity.
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The 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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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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Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.
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Up to a certain point every man is what he thinks he is.
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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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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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The one self- knowledge worth having is to know one’s own mind.
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Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct.
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There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
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Religion is rather the attempt to express the complete reality of goodness through every aspect of our being.
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The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
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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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His mind is so open – so open that ideas simply pass through it.
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Another occupation might have been better.
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