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.
F. H. BRADLEYI can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.
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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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Up to a certain point every man is what he thinks he is.
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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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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 propriety of some persons seems to consist in having improper thoughts about their neighbors.
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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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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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An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.
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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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Another occupation might have been better.
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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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Religion is rather the attempt to express the complete reality of goodness through every aspect of our being.
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Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct.
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The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.
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