The force of the blow depends on the resistance. It is sometimes better not to struggle against temptation. Either fly or yield at once.
F. H. BRADLEYThere are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth.
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I can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.
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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 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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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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Religion is rather the attempt to express the complete reality of goodness through every aspect of our being.
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Few people would not be the worse for complete sincerity.
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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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The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
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Up to a certain point every man is what he thinks he is.
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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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Another occupation might have been better.
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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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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 those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth.
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