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The one self- knowledge worth having is to know one’s own mind.

F. H. Bradley

His mind is so open – so open that ideas simply pass through it.
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Ideas Mindset Open Simplicity
The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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Death Enemy Knowledge Virtue
The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
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Care Fear Man
The one self- knowledge worth having is to know one’s own mind.
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Discover Knowledge Mindset Oneself Worth
Religion is rather the attempt to express the complete reality of goodness through every aspect of our being.
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Aspect Attempt Expression Goodness Ourselves Religion
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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Alone Finding Himself Man Nature Thinking
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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Blood Experience Heart Live Ourselves Writing
Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.
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Acceptance Goodness Hard Time Knowledge Worst
The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.
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Best Evil Necessary Possible World
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
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Admire Happiness Secret
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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Children Daughter Herself Mom Play
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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Blow Fly Force Resistance Temptation
Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
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Fake Philosophy Truth
There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
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Interest Person Shock
Few people would not be the worse for complete sincerity.
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People Sincere Worst
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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Application Encouragement Feeling

The one self- knowledge worth having is to know one’s own mind.

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