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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

Up to a certain point every man is what he thinks he is.
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Belief Deep Man Point Self Love Thinking
True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.
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Repeat Silence True Willing
There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
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Interest Person Shock
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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Answer Brain Oneself Suicide
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 secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
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Admire Happiness Secret
An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.
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Experience Fix Genuine Impression True
But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.
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Desire Oneself
Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
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Fake Philosophy Truth
Few people would not be the worse for complete sincerity.
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People Sincere Worst
The hunter for aphorisms on human nature has to fish in muddy water, and he is even condemned to find much of his own mind.
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Himself Human Hunter Mindset Nature Water
The propriety of some persons seems to consist in having improper thoughts about their neighbors.
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Neighbor Person Thinking
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
Another occupation might have been better.
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Better Choice Job Occupation
I can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.
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Experience Myself
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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Goodness Reason Teaching

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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