Another occupation might have been better.
F. H. BRADLEYThe 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 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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Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct.
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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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There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
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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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There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth.
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Few people would not be the worse for complete sincerity.
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I can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.
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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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True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.
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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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An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.
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The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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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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Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.
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