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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

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
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 world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.
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Best Evil Necessary Possible World
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
The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
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Care Fear Man
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
There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
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Interest Person Shock
The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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Death Enemy Knowledge Virtue
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
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
Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
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Fake Philosophy Truth
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
I can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.
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Experience Myself
Another occupation might have been better.
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Better Choice Job Occupation

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