An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.
F. H. BRADLEYFew people would not be the worse for complete sincerity.
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Few people would not be the worse for complete sincerity.
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Another occupation might have been better.
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My external sensations are no less private to my self than are my thoughts or my feelings. In either case my experience falls within my own circle, a circle closed on the outside… the whole world for each is peculiar and private to that soul.
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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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But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.
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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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The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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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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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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Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
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The one self- knowledge worth having is to know one’s own mind.
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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 man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
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His mind is so open – so open that ideas simply pass through it.
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