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.
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.
More F. H. Bradley Quotes
-
-
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.
F. H. BRADLEY -
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.
F. H. BRADLEY -
The cost of a thing is what I call life which has to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
F. H. BRADLEY -
The force of the blow depends on the resistance. It is sometimes better not to struggle against temptation. Either fly or yield at once.
F. H. BRADLEY -
Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
F. H. BRADLEY -
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.
F. H. BRADLEY -
There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
F. H. BRADLEY -
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.
F. H. BRADLEY -
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.
F. H. BRADLEY -
Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.
F. H. BRADLEY -
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
F. H. BRADLEY -
An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.
F. H. BRADLEY -
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.
F. H. BRADLEY -
Few people would not be the worse for complete sincerity.
F. H. BRADLEY -
I can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.
F. H. BRADLEY