black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.

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

Blow Fly Force Resistance Temptation
Another occupation might have been better.
F. H. BRADLEY

Better Choice Job Occupation
The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
F. H. BRADLEY

Death Enemy Knowledge Virtue
Few people would not be the worse for complete sincerity.
F. H. BRADLEY

People Sincere Worst
There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
F. H. BRADLEY

Interest Person Shock
The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.
F. H. BRADLEY

Best Evil Necessary Possible World
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

Children Daughter Herself Mom Play
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

Feeling Privacy Sensation Soul
The propriety of some persons seems to consist in having improper thoughts about their neighbors.
F. H. BRADLEY

Neighbor Person Thinking
Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
F. H. BRADLEY

Fake Philosophy Truth
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

Beginning Discussion Follow Myself Profession
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

Answer Brain Oneself Suicide
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.
F. H. BRADLEY

Arrival Children Knowledge Marriage Wife
True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.
F. H. BRADLEY

Repeat Silence True Willing
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

Cost exchange Myself Price Run
His mind is so open – so open that ideas simply pass through it.
F. H. BRADLEY

Ideas Mindset Open Simplicity

Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More F. H. Bradley Quotes