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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.

F. H. Bradley

True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.
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Repeat Silence True Willing
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.
F. H. BRADLEY

Goodness Himself Learning Man Reputation Understand World
An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.
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Experience Fix Genuine Impression True
Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.
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Acceptance Goodness Hard Time Knowledge Worst
There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
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Interest Person Shock
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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Children Daughter Herself Mom Play
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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Application Encouragement Feeling
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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Cost exchange Myself Price Run
But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.
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Desire Oneself
The one self- knowledge worth having is to know one’s own mind.
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Discover Knowledge Mindset Oneself Worth
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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Himself Human Hunter Mindset Nature Water
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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Arrival Children Knowledge Marriage Wife
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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Alone Finding Himself Man Nature Thinking
Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
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Fake Philosophy Truth
I can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.
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Experience Myself
There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth.
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Finding Naked Philosophy Truth

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