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The propriety of some persons seems to consist in having improper thoughts about their neighbors.

F. H. Bradley

The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
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Care Fear Man
His mind is so open – so open that ideas simply pass through it.
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Ideas Mindset Open Simplicity
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
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
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
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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Goodness Reason Teaching
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
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
There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
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Interest Person Shock
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
The one self- knowledge worth having is to know one’s own mind.
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Discover Knowledge Mindset Oneself Worth
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
Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
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Fake Philosophy Truth
The propriety of some persons seems to consist in having improper thoughts about their neighbors.
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Neighbor Person Thinking
Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.
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Acceptance Goodness Hard Time Knowledge Worst
An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.
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Experience Fix Genuine Impression True

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