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But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.

F. H. Bradley

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
Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
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Fake Philosophy Truth
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
His mind is so open – so open that ideas simply pass through it.
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Ideas Mindset Open Simplicity
True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.
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Repeat Silence True Willing
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
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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Application Encouragement Feeling
The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
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Care Fear Man
There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
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Interest Person Shock
Up to a certain point every man is what he thinks he is.
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Belief Deep Man Point Self Love Thinking
Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.
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Acceptance Goodness Hard Time Knowledge Worst
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
Few people would not be the worse for complete sincerity.
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People Sincere Worst
Another occupation might have been better.
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Better Choice Job Occupation
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
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

But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.

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