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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

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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Attraction Change Economy Help Sympathy Wisdom
Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct.
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Bad Believe Finding Instinct Physics Reason
His mind is so open – so open that ideas simply pass through it.
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Ideas Mindset Open Simplicity
The propriety of some persons seems to consist in having improper thoughts about their neighbors.
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Neighbor Person Thinking
Religion is rather the attempt to express the complete reality of goodness through every aspect of our being.
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Aspect Attempt Expression Goodness Ourselves Religion
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
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
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
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 secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
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Admire Happiness Secret
But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.
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Desire Oneself
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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Answer Brain Oneself Suicide
The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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Death Enemy Knowledge Virtue
Few people would not be the worse for complete sincerity.
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People Sincere Worst
The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
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Care Fear Man
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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