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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 secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
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Admire Happiness Secret
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
Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
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Fake Philosophy Truth
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
Another occupation might have been better.
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Better Choice Job Occupation
Few people would not be the worse for complete sincerity.
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People Sincere Worst
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
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
The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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Death Enemy Knowledge Virtue
But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.
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Desire Oneself
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
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
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
An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.
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Experience Fix Genuine Impression True
Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.
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Acceptance Goodness Hard Time Knowledge Worst
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

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