The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.
F. H. BRADLEYThe 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 propriety of some persons seems to consist in having improper thoughts about their neighbors.
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There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
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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 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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Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct.
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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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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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Religion is rather the attempt to express the complete reality of goodness through every aspect of our being.
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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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True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.
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Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.
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Up to a certain point every man is what he thinks he is.
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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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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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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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