The propriety of some persons seems to consist in having improper thoughts about their neighbors.
F. H. BRADLEYThe one self- knowledge worth having is to know one’s own mind.
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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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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 one self- knowledge worth having is to know one’s own mind.
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The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
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There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
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The cost of a thing is what I call life which has to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
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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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I can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.
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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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But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.
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Religion is rather the attempt to express the complete reality of goodness through every aspect of our being.
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The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
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Another occupation might have been better.
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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 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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