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An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.

F. H. Bradley

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
Few people would not be the worse for complete sincerity.
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People Sincere Worst
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
Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct.
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Bad Believe Finding Instinct Physics Reason
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
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
Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
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Fake Philosophy Truth
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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Beginning Discussion Follow Myself Profession
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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Attraction Change Economy Help Sympathy Wisdom
But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.
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Desire Oneself
Another occupation might have been better.
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Better Choice Job Occupation
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
There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
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Interest Person Shock
An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.
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Experience Fix Genuine Impression True
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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Children Daughter Herself Mom Play

An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.

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