The propriety of some persons seems to consist in having improper thoughts about their neighbors.
F. H. BRADLEYThere are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth.
More F. H. Bradley Quotes
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I can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.
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An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.
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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 one self- knowledge worth having is to know one’s own mind.
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Up to a certain point every man is what he thinks he is.
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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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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 secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
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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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Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
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The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
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Few people would not be the worse for complete sincerity.
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His mind is so open – so open that ideas simply pass through it.
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