Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct.
F. H. BRADLEYThe deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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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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I can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.
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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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The force of the blow depends on the resistance. It is sometimes better not to struggle against temptation. Either fly or yield at once.
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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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Few people would not be the worse for complete sincerity.
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Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
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Up to a certain point every man is what he thinks he is.
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But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.
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Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.
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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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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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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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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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The one self- knowledge worth having is to know one’s own mind.
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