There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
F. H. BRADLEYAdam 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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The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.
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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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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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The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
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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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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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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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The one self- knowledge worth having is to know one’s own mind.
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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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Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct.
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I can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.
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An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.
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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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