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Religion is rather the attempt to express the complete reality of goodness through every aspect of our being.

F. H. Bradley

There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
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Interest Person Shock
An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.
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Experience Fix Genuine Impression True
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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Alone Finding Himself Man Nature Thinking
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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Cost exchange Myself Price Run
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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Himself Human Hunter Mindset Nature Water
Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.
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Acceptance Goodness Hard Time Knowledge Worst
Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
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Fake Philosophy Truth
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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Blood Experience Heart Live Ourselves Writing
Up to a certain point every man is what he thinks he is.
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Belief Deep Man Point Self Love Thinking
The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
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Care Fear Man
The one self- knowledge worth having is to know one’s own mind.
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Discover Knowledge Mindset Oneself Worth
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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Beginning Discussion Follow Myself Profession
Few people would not be the worse for complete sincerity.
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People Sincere Worst
The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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Death Enemy Knowledge Virtue
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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Arrival Children Knowledge Marriage Wife
My 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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Feeling Privacy Sensation Soul

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