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

F. H. Bradley

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
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
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
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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Goodness Himself Learning Man Reputation Understand World
The propriety of some persons seems to consist in having improper thoughts about their neighbors.
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Neighbor Person Thinking
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
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Admire Happiness Secret
I can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.
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Experience Myself
Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.
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Acceptance Goodness Hard Time Knowledge Worst
The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
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Care Fear Man
Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
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Fake Philosophy Truth
Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct.
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Bad Believe Finding Instinct Physics Reason
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
The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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Death Enemy Knowledge Virtue
There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
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Interest Person Shock
Religion is rather the attempt to express the complete reality of goodness through every aspect of our being.
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Aspect Attempt Expression Goodness Ourselves Religion
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.
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Alone Finding Himself Man Nature Thinking

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