An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.
F. H. BRADLEYThe propriety of some persons seems to consist in having improper thoughts about their neighbors.
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Another occupation might have been better.
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Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct.
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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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His mind is so open – so open that ideas simply pass through it.
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The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
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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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It is good to know what a man is, and also what the world takes him for. But you do not understand him until you have learnt how he understands himself.
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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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Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
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There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth.
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I can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.
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But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.
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Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.
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The force of the blow depends on the resistance. It is sometimes better not to struggle against temptation. Either fly or yield at once.
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Religion is rather the attempt to express the complete reality of goodness through every aspect of our being.
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