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.
More F. H. Bradley Quotes
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Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.
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But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.
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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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There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth.
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The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.
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Few people would not be the worse for complete sincerity.
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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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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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Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct.
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The propriety of some persons seems to consist in having improper thoughts about their neighbors.
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I can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.
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True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.
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The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
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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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