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His mind is so open – so open that ideas simply pass through it.

F. H. Bradley

Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart’s blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink.
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Blood Experience Heart Live Ourselves Writing
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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Feeling Privacy Sensation Soul
Another occupation might have been better.
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Better Choice Job Occupation
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
Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct.
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Bad Believe Finding Instinct Physics Reason
There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
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Interest Person Shock
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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Beginning Discussion Follow Myself Profession
I can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.
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Experience Myself
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 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
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
His mind is so open – so open that ideas simply pass through it.
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Ideas Mindset Open Simplicity
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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Himself Human Hunter Mindset Nature Water
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
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
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Admire Happiness Secret
The propriety of some persons seems to consist in having improper thoughts about their neighbors.
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Neighbor Person Thinking

His mind is so open – so open that ideas simply pass through it.

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