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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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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Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.
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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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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 one self- knowledge worth having is to know one’s own mind.
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The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
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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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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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Up to a certain point every man is what he thinks he is.
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Another occupation might have been better.
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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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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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Few people would not be the worse for complete sincerity.
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I can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.
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