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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

The propriety of some persons seems to consist in having improper thoughts about their neighbors.
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Neighbor Person Thinking
Another occupation might have been better.
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Better Choice Job Occupation
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
There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
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Interest Person Shock
Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct.
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Bad Believe Finding Instinct Physics Reason
The one self- knowledge worth having is to know one’s own mind.
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Discover Knowledge Mindset Oneself Worth
Religion is rather the attempt to express the complete reality of goodness through every aspect of our being.
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Aspect Attempt Expression Goodness Ourselves Religion
Few people would not be the worse for complete sincerity.
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People Sincere Worst
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
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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Attraction Change Economy Help Sympathy Wisdom
An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.
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Experience Fix Genuine Impression True
The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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Death Enemy Knowledge Virtue
There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth.
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Finding Naked Philosophy Truth
The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
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Care Fear Man
His mind is so open – so open that ideas simply pass through it.
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Ideas Mindset Open Simplicity
Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.
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Acceptance Goodness Hard Time Knowledge Worst

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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