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F. H. Bradley

The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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Death Enemy Knowledge Virtue
Up to a certain point every man is what he thinks he is.
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Belief Deep Man Point Self Love Thinking
Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
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Fake Philosophy Truth
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 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
But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.
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Desire Oneself
An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.
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Experience Fix Genuine Impression True
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
There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
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Interest Person Shock
The one self- knowledge worth having is to know one’s own mind.
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Discover Knowledge Mindset Oneself Worth
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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Arrival Children Knowledge Marriage Wife
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Better Choice Job Occupation
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
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
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
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

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