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Few people would not be the worse for complete sincerity.

F. H. Bradley

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 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
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 secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
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Admire Happiness Secret
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 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
The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
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Care Fear Man
I can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.
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Experience Myself
There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
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Interest Person Shock
An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.
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Experience Fix Genuine Impression True
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
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
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
Up to a certain point every man is what he thinks he is.
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Belief Deep Man Point Self Love Thinking
His mind is so open – so open that ideas simply pass through it.
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Ideas Mindset Open Simplicity
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

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