An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.
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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The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
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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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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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His mind is so open – so open that ideas simply pass through it.
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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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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 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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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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The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.
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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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There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
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Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.
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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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Few people would not be the worse for complete sincerity.
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The one self- knowledge worth having is to know one’s own mind.
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