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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.

F. H. Bradley

Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct.
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Bad Believe Finding Instinct Physics Reason
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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Feeling Privacy Sensation Soul
We say that a girl with her doll anticipates the mother. It is more true, perhaps, that most mothers are still but children with playthings.
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Children Daughter Herself Mom Play
An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.
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Experience Fix Genuine Impression True
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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Goodness Himself Learning Man Reputation Understand World
Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
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Fake Philosophy Truth
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 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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Cost exchange Myself Price Run
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
The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.
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Best Evil Necessary Possible World
I can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.
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Experience Myself
The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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Death Enemy Knowledge Virtue
Few people would not be the worse for complete sincerity.
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People Sincere Worst
Up to a certain point every man is what he thinks he is.
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Belief Deep Man Point Self Love Thinking
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

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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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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