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Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

F. H. Bradley

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 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
Few people would not be the worse for complete sincerity.
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People Sincere Worst
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 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
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
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
But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.
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Desire Oneself
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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Arrival Children Knowledge Marriage Wife
The propriety of some persons seems to consist in having improper thoughts about their neighbors.
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Neighbor Person Thinking
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
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
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
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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Children Daughter Herself Mom Play
Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct.
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Bad Believe Finding Instinct Physics Reason
Up to a certain point every man is what he thinks he is.
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Belief Deep Man Point Self Love Thinking

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