The one self- knowledge worth having is to know one’s own mind.
F. H. BRADLEYI can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.
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Few people would not be the worse for complete sincerity.
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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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His mind is so open – so open that ideas simply pass through it.
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But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.
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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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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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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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Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct.
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The propriety of some persons seems to consist in having improper thoughts about their neighbors.
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Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
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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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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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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 secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
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