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.
F. H. BRADLEYI 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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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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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 who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
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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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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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Up to a certain point every man is what he thinks he is.
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Few people would not be the worse for complete sincerity.
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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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There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth.
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I can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.
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An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.
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Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
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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 world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.
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Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.
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