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.
F. H. BRADLEYUp 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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The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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I can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.
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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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The one self- knowledge worth having is to know one’s own mind.
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Up to a certain point every man is what he thinks he is.
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Another occupation might have been better.
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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 hunter for aphorisms on human nature has to fish in muddy water, and he is even condemned to find much of his own mind.
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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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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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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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There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth.
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The propriety of some persons seems to consist in having improper thoughts about their neighbors.
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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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