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.
F. H. BRADLEYAn aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.
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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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The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.
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There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
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Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.
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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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The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
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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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Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
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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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I can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.
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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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Up to a certain point every man is what he thinks he is.
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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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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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