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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

Few people would not be the worse for complete sincerity.
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People Sincere Worst
An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.
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Experience Fix Genuine Impression True
But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.
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Desire Oneself
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
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
Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.
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Acceptance Goodness Hard Time Knowledge Worst
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
Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
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Fake Philosophy Truth
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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Blow Fly Force Resistance Temptation
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
The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
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Care Fear Man
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
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
Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct.
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Bad Believe Finding Instinct Physics Reason
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

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