Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
F. H. BRADLEYUp to a certain point every man is what he thinks he is.
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An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.
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Up to a certain point every man is what he thinks he is.
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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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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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There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
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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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The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.
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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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But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.
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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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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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Religion is rather the attempt to express the complete reality of goodness through every aspect of our being.
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Another occupation might have been better.
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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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