The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.
F. H. BRADLEYThere are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth.
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The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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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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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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Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.
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Few people would not be the worse for complete sincerity.
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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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Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct.
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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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Up to a certain point every man is what he thinks he is.
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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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Religion is rather the attempt to express the complete reality of goodness through every aspect of our being.
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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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Another occupation might have been better.
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But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.
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There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth.
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