But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.
F. H. BRADLEYThe one self- knowledge worth having is to know one’s own mind.
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The one self- knowledge worth having is to know one’s own mind.
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The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.
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The propriety of some persons seems to consist in having improper thoughts about their neighbors.
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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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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.
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True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.
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Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct.
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It is good to know what a man is, and also what the world takes him for. But you do not understand him until you have learnt how he understands himself.
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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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The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
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I can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.
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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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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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His mind is so open – so open that ideas simply pass through it.
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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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