The one self- knowledge worth having is to know one’s own mind.
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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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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The man whose nature is such that by one path alone his chief desire will reach consummation will try to find it on that path, whatever it may be, and whatever the world thinks of it; and if he does not, he is contemptible.
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Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct.
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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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There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
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The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
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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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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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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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But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.
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An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.
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The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
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True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.
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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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Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.
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