Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
F. H. BRADLEYEclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
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But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.
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The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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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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Up to a certain point every man is what he thinks he is.
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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 man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
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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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An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.
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I will begin with the self-styled “Christian” party, who profess to base their morality on the New Testament. But whether it is really more Christian to follow or to ignore the teachings of the Gospels I shall not discuss.
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His mind is so open – so open that ideas simply pass through it.
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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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The one self- knowledge worth having is to know one’s own mind.
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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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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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Another occupation might have been better.
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