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

F. H. Bradley

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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Blow Fly Force Resistance Temptation
An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.
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Experience Fix Genuine Impression True
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
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
But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.
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Desire Oneself
I can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.
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Experience Myself
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
The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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Death Enemy Knowledge Virtue
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
Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
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Fake Philosophy Truth
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
His mind is so open – so open that ideas simply pass through it.
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Ideas Mindset Open Simplicity
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
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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Goodness Reason Teaching
Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.
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Acceptance Goodness Hard Time Knowledge Worst
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

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

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