The one self- knowledge worth having is to know one’s own mind.
F. H. BRADLEYThe one self- knowledge worth having is to know one’s own mind.
F. H. BRADLEYAn aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.
F. H. BRADLEYTrue penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.
F. H. BRADLEYAdam 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.
F. H. BRADLEYI can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.
F. H. BRADLEYThe world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.
F. H. BRADLEYHis mind is so open – so open that ideas simply pass through it.
F. H. BRADLEYThe deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
F. H. BRADLEYMy 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.
F. H. BRADLEYThere are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth.
F. H. BRADLEYAnother occupation might have been better.
F. H. BRADLEYThe cost of a thing is what I call life which has to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
F. H. BRADLEYReligion is rather the attempt to express the complete reality of goodness through every aspect of our being.
F. H. BRADLEYThe man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
F. H. BRADLEYThe 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.
F. H. BRADLEYWe say that a girl with her doll anticipates the mother. It is more true, perhaps, that most mothers are still but children with playthings.
F. H. BRADLEY