Religion is rather the attempt to express the complete reality of goodness through every aspect of our being.
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 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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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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There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth.
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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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Up to a certain point every man is what he thinks he is.
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The propriety of some persons seems to consist in having improper thoughts about their neighbors.
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Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.
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Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
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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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An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.
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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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Another occupation might have been better.
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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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Few people would not be the worse for complete sincerity.
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