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. BRADLEYMy 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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There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
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Another occupation might have been better.
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The one self- knowledge worth having is to know one’s own mind.
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I can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.
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His mind is so open – so open that ideas simply pass through it.
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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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But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.
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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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The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
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The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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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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Few people would not be the worse for complete sincerity.
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Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct.
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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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