Few people would not be the worse for complete sincerity.
F. H. BRADLEYI can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.
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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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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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Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct.
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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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There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
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Another occupation might have been better.
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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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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 propriety of some persons seems to consist in having improper thoughts about their neighbors.
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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 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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We say that a girl with her doll anticipates the mother. It is more true, perhaps, that most mothers are still but children with playthings.
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The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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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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