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I can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.

F. H. Bradley

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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Goodness Reason Teaching
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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Children Daughter Herself Mom Play
There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth.
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Finding Naked Philosophy Truth
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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Goodness Himself Learning Man Reputation Understand World
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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Feeling Privacy Sensation Soul
The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.
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Best Evil Necessary Possible World
The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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Death Enemy Knowledge Virtue
Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
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Fake Philosophy Truth
There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
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Interest Person Shock
Religion is rather the attempt to express the complete reality of goodness through every aspect of our being.
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Aspect Attempt Expression Goodness Ourselves Religion
Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct.
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Bad Believe Finding Instinct Physics Reason
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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Blow Fly Force Resistance Temptation
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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Alone Finding Himself Man Nature Thinking
Another occupation might have been better.
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Better Choice Job Occupation
It 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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Attraction Change Economy Help Sympathy Wisdom
Few people would not be the worse for complete sincerity.
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People Sincere Worst

I can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.

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