The one self- knowledge worth having is to know one’s own mind.
F. H. BRADLEYWhere everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.
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Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.
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The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.
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The propriety of some persons seems to consist in having improper thoughts about their neighbors.
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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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Another occupation might have been better.
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I can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.
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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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Religion is rather the attempt to express the complete reality of goodness through every aspect of our being.
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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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There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth.
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Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart’s blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink.
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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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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.
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The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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