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

F. H. Bradley

An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.
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Experience Fix Genuine Impression True
The propriety of some persons seems to consist in having improper thoughts about their neighbors.
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Neighbor Person Thinking
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
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 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
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
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
Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct.
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Bad Believe Finding Instinct Physics Reason
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
Another occupation might have been better.
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Better Choice Job Occupation
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
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
Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
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Fake Philosophy Truth
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
The one self- knowledge worth having is to know one’s own mind.
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Discover Knowledge Mindset Oneself Worth
Up to a certain point every man is what he thinks he is.
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Belief Deep Man Point Self Love Thinking

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

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