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.
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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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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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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The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.
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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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His mind is so open – so open that ideas simply pass through it.
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The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.
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There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
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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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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 secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
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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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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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The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
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