Reason teaches us that what is good is good for something, and that what is good for nothing is not good at all.
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 deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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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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His mind is so open – so open that ideas simply pass through it.
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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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Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
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I can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.
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The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
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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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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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Few people would not be the worse for complete sincerity.
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Another occupation might have been better.
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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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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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There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth.
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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 one self- knowledge worth having is to know one’s own mind.
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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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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 propriety of some persons seems to consist in having improper thoughts about their neighbors.
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An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.
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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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But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.
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Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived. It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of their wives at which some men seem to arrive.
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Up to a certain point every man is what he thinks he is.
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