black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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

F. H. Bradley

Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.
F. H. BRADLEY

Acceptance Goodness Hard Time Knowledge Worst
The cost of a thing is what I call life which has to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
F. H. BRADLEY

Cost exchange Myself Price Run
The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.
F. H. BRADLEY

Best Evil Necessary Possible World
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.
F. H. BRADLEY

Himself Human Hunter Mindset Nature Water
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
F. H. BRADLEY

Admire Happiness Secret
The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
F. H. BRADLEY

Care Fear Man
There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
F. H. BRADLEY

Interest Person Shock
Few people would not be the worse for complete sincerity.
F. H. BRADLEY

People Sincere Worst
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.
F. H. BRADLEY

Children Daughter Herself Mom Play
The one self- knowledge worth having is to know one’s own mind.
F. H. BRADLEY

Discover Knowledge Mindset Oneself Worth
But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.
F. H. BRADLEY

Desire Oneself
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.
F. H. BRADLEY

Arrival Children Knowledge Marriage Wife
The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
F. H. BRADLEY

Death Enemy Knowledge Virtue
True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.
F. H. BRADLEY

Repeat Silence True Willing
Another occupation might have been better.
F. H. BRADLEY

Better Choice Job Occupation
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. BRADLEY

Goodness Reason Teaching

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

Related Topics

Popular Authors

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

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More F. H. Bradley Quotes