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.
F. H. BRADLEYAn aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.
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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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There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth.
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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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Few people would not be the worse for complete sincerity.
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There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
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The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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His mind is so open – so open that ideas simply pass through it.
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Another occupation might have been better.
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Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct.
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An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.
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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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Religion is rather the attempt to express the complete reality of goodness through every aspect of our being.
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I can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.
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The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
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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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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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True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.
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The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
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But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.
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The propriety of some persons seems to consist in having improper thoughts about their neighbors.
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