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

F. H. Bradley

Up to a certain point every man is what he thinks he is.
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Belief Deep Man Point Self Love Thinking
Few people would not be the worse for complete sincerity.
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People Sincere Worst
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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Answer Brain Oneself Suicide
The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
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Care Fear Man
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
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
I can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.
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Experience Myself
Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
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Fake Philosophy Truth
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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Arrival Children Knowledge Marriage Wife
The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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Death Enemy Knowledge Virtue
Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.
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Acceptance Goodness Hard Time Knowledge Worst
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
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
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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Feeling Privacy Sensation Soul
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
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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