Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct.
F. H. BRADLEYOne 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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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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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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Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.
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Another occupation might have been better.
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Reason teaches us that what is good is good for something, and that what is good for nothing is not good at all.
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His mind is so open – so open that ideas simply pass through it.
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But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.
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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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The propriety of some persons seems to consist in having improper thoughts about their neighbors.
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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 who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
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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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True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.
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The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
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There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth.
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