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The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.

F. H. Bradley

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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Beginning Discussion Follow Myself Profession
The cost of a thing is what I call life which has to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
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Cost exchange Myself Price Run
Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct.
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Bad Believe Finding Instinct Physics Reason
I can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.
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Experience Myself
The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
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Care Fear Man
His mind is so open – so open that ideas simply pass through it.
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Ideas Mindset Open Simplicity
The one self- knowledge worth having is to know one’s own mind.
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Discover Knowledge Mindset Oneself Worth
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
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
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Admire Happiness Secret
There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
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Interest Person Shock
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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Blood Experience Heart Live Ourselves Writing
The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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Death Enemy Knowledge Virtue
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
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
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
Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
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Fake Philosophy Truth

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