The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
F. H. BRADLEYAnother occupation might have been better.
More F. H. Bradley Quotes
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The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
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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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His mind is so open – so open that ideas simply pass through it.
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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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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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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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Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
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Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct.
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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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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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There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
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The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.
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I can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.
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Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart’s blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink.
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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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