Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart’s blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink.
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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His mind is so open – so open that ideas simply pass through it.
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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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The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.
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Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct.
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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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But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.
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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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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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There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
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Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
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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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I can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.
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The propriety of some persons seems to consist in having improper thoughts about their neighbors.
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Up to a certain point every man is what he thinks he is.
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An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.
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