Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
F. H. BRADLEYIt 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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Religion is rather the attempt to express the complete reality of goodness through every aspect of our being.
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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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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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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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Up to a certain point every man is what he thinks he is.
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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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His mind is so open – so open that ideas simply pass through it.
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I can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.
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The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
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Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.
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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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There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth.
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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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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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Few people would not be the worse for complete sincerity.
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