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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.

F. H. Bradley

Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart’s blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink.
F. H. BRADLEY

Blood Experience Heart Live Ourselves Writing
The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.
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Best Evil Necessary Possible World
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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Alone Finding Himself Man Nature Thinking
An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.
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Experience Fix Genuine Impression True
I can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.
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Experience Myself
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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Goodness Reason Teaching
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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Himself Human Hunter Mindset Nature Water
The one self- knowledge worth having is to know one’s own mind.
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Discover Knowledge Mindset Oneself Worth
The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
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Care Fear Man
Another occupation might have been better.
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Better Choice Job Occupation
Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
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Fake Philosophy Truth
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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Attraction Change Economy Help Sympathy Wisdom
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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Beginning Discussion Follow Myself Profession
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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Goodness Himself Learning Man Reputation Understand World
But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.
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Desire Oneself
There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth.
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Finding Naked Philosophy Truth

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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