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.
F. H. BRADLEYReligion is rather the attempt to express the complete reality of goodness through every aspect of our being.
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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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But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.
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The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.
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I can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.
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Up to a certain point every man is what he thinks he is.
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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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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 man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
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Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
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It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.
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The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
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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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The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.
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The one self- knowledge worth having is to know one’s own mind.
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