There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth.
F. H. BRADLEYThere are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth.
F. H. BRADLEYOur live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart’s blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink.
F. H. BRADLEYThe force of the blow depends on the resistance. It is sometimes better not to struggle against temptation. Either fly or yield at once.
F. H. BRADLEYMetaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct.
F. H. BRADLEYOne 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.
F. H. BRADLEYThe 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.
F. H. BRADLEYThe cost of a thing is what I call life which has to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
F. H. BRADLEYWhere everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.
F. H. BRADLEYThe propriety of some persons seems to consist in having improper thoughts about their neighbors.
F. H. BRADLEYHis mind is so open – so open that ideas simply pass through it.
F. H. BRADLEYFew people would not be the worse for complete sincerity.
F. H. BRADLEYTrue penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.
F. H. BRADLEYI 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.
F. H. BRADLEYThe world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.
F. H. BRADLEYIt 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.
F. H. BRADLEYBut when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.
F. H. BRADLEY