The cost of a thing is what I call life which has to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
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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Up to a certain point every man is what he thinks he is.
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The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
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The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
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I can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.
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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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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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Another occupation might have been better.
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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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Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.
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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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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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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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An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.
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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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