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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.

F. H. Bradley

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
His mind is so open – so open that ideas simply pass through it.
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Ideas Mindset Open Simplicity
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
The one self- knowledge worth having is to know one’s own mind.
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Discover Knowledge Mindset Oneself Worth
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 propriety of some persons seems to consist in having improper thoughts about their neighbors.
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Neighbor Person Thinking
The man whose nature is such that by one path alone his chief desire will reach consummation will try to find it on that path, whatever it may be, and whatever the world thinks of it; and if he does not, he is contemptible.
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Alone Finding Himself Man Nature Thinking
Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.
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Acceptance Goodness Hard Time Knowledge Worst
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
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
An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.
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Experience Fix Genuine Impression True
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
There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
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Interest Person Shock
Another occupation might have been better.
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Better Choice Job Occupation
My external sensations are no less private to my self than are my thoughts or my feelings. In either case my experience falls within my own circle, a circle closed on the outside… the whole world for each is peculiar and private to that soul.
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Feeling Privacy Sensation Soul
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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