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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

The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.
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Best Evil Necessary Possible World
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
Another occupation might have been better.
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Better Choice Job Occupation
Up to a certain point every man is what he thinks he is.
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Belief Deep Man Point Self Love Thinking
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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Goodness Himself Learning Man Reputation Understand World
The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
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Care Fear Man
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
But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.
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Desire Oneself
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
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
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Admire Happiness Secret
There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth.
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Finding Naked Philosophy Truth
Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
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Fake Philosophy Truth
There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
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Interest Person Shock
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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Application Encouragement Feeling
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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Goodness Reason Teaching
True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.
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Repeat Silence True Willing

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