Up to a certain point every man is what he thinks he is.
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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True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.
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Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.
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The man whose nature is such that by one path alone his chief desire will reach consummation will try to find it on that path, whatever it may be, and whatever the world thinks of it; and if he does not, he is contemptible.
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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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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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I can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.
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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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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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An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.
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The one self- knowledge worth having is to know one’s own mind.
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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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His mind is so open – so open that ideas simply pass through it.
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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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The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
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The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
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