I can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.
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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There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth.
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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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There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
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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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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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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 man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
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True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.
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The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.
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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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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 one self- knowledge worth having is to know one’s own mind.
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Few people would not be the worse for complete sincerity.
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The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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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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