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

F. H. Bradley

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
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
Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct.
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Bad Believe Finding Instinct Physics Reason
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
Up to a certain point every man is what he thinks he is.
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Belief Deep Man Point Self Love Thinking
The one self- knowledge worth having is to know one’s own mind.
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Discover Knowledge Mindset Oneself Worth
His mind is so open – so open that ideas simply pass through it.
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Ideas Mindset Open Simplicity
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
I can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.
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Experience Myself
The propriety of some persons seems to consist in having improper thoughts about their neighbors.
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Neighbor Person Thinking
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
An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.
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Experience Fix Genuine Impression True
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.
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Children Daughter Herself Mom Play
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
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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Arrival Children Knowledge Marriage Wife

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