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

F. H. Bradley

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
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
Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.
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Acceptance Goodness Hard Time Knowledge Worst
His mind is so open – so open that ideas simply pass through it.
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Ideas Mindset Open Simplicity
The one self- knowledge worth having is to know one’s own mind.
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Discover Knowledge Mindset Oneself Worth
I can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.
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Experience Myself
The propriety of some persons seems to consist in having improper thoughts about their neighbors.
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Neighbor Person 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
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
Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct.
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Bad Believe Finding Instinct Physics Reason
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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Beginning Discussion Follow Myself Profession
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 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
An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.
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Experience Fix Genuine Impression True
The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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Death Enemy Knowledge Virtue

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

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