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

F. H. Bradley

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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Answer Brain Oneself Suicide
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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Attraction Change Economy Help Sympathy Wisdom
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 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
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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Feeling Privacy Sensation Soul
But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.
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Desire Oneself
Up to a certain point every man is what he thinks he is.
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Belief Deep Man Point Self Love Thinking
The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
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Care Fear Man
There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
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Interest Person Shock
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
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Admire Happiness Secret
Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
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Fake Philosophy Truth
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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Goodness Reason Teaching
His mind is so open – so open that ideas simply pass through it.
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Ideas Mindset Open Simplicity
Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.
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Acceptance Goodness Hard Time Knowledge Worst
An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.
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Experience Fix Genuine Impression True
The one self- knowledge worth having is to know one’s own mind.
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