The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
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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I can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.
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Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
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The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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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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Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.
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Religion is rather the attempt to express the complete reality of goodness through every aspect of our being.
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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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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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There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
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Another occupation might have been better.
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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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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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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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We say that a girl with her doll anticipates the mother. It is more true, perhaps, that most mothers are still but children with playthings.
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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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Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct.
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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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There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth.
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An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.
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His mind is so open – so open that ideas simply pass through it.
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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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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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The one self- knowledge worth having is to know one’s own mind.
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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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But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.
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Up to a certain point every man is what he thinks he is.
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