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Up to a certain point every man is what he thinks he is.

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.
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Blood Experience Heart Live Ourselves Writing
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
I can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.
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Experience Myself
An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.
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Experience Fix Genuine Impression True
Religion is rather the attempt to express the complete reality of goodness through every aspect of our being.
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Aspect Attempt Expression Goodness Ourselves Religion
The one self- knowledge worth having is to know one’s own mind.
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Discover Knowledge Mindset Oneself Worth
The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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Death Enemy Knowledge Virtue
Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.
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Acceptance Goodness Hard Time Knowledge Worst
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
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Admire Happiness Secret
My external sensations are no less private to my self than are my thoughts or my feelings. In either case my experience falls within my own circle, a circle closed on the outside… the whole world for each is peculiar and private to that soul.
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Feeling Privacy Sensation Soul
Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct.
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Bad Believe Finding Instinct Physics Reason
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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Arrival Children Knowledge Marriage Wife
Few people would not be the worse for complete sincerity.
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People Sincere Worst
True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.
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Repeat Silence True Willing
The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
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Care Fear Man
The propriety of some persons seems to consist in having improper thoughts about their neighbors.
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Neighbor Person Thinking

Up to a certain point every man is what he thinks he is.

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