Another occupation might have been better.
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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Religion is rather the attempt to express the complete reality of goodness through every aspect of our being.
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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 deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.
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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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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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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 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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I can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.
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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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Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
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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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Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.
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