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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

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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Blood Experience Heart Live Ourselves Writing
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
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Admire Happiness Secret
It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.
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Attraction Change Economy Help Sympathy Wisdom
I can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.
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Experience Myself
The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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Death Enemy Knowledge Virtue
But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.
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Desire Oneself
His mind is so open – so open that ideas simply pass through it.
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Ideas Mindset Open Simplicity
Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.
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Acceptance Goodness Hard Time Knowledge Worst
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
The propriety of some persons seems to consist in having improper thoughts about their neighbors.
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Neighbor Person Thinking
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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Answer Brain Oneself Suicide
Religion is rather the attempt to express the complete reality of goodness through every aspect of our being.
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Aspect Attempt Expression Goodness Ourselves Religion
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
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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Blow Fly Force Resistance Temptation
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
The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.
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Best Evil Necessary Possible World

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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