Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
F. H. BRADLEYOur 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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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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The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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I can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.
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But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.
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An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.
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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 secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
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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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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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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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Few people would not be the worse for complete sincerity.
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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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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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There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
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