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.
F. H. BRADLEYThe one self- knowledge worth having is to know one’s own mind.
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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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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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There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
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I can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.
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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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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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His mind is so open – so open that ideas simply pass through it.
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Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct.
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The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
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I will begin with the self-styled “Christian” party, who profess to base their morality on the New Testament. But whether it is really more Christian to follow or to ignore the teachings of the Gospels I shall not discuss.
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Up to a certain point every man is what he thinks he is.
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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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Another occupation might have been better.
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Few people would not be the worse for complete sincerity.
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