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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.

F. H. Bradley

The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
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Care Fear Man
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
Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct.
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Bad Believe Finding Instinct Physics Reason
I can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.
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Experience Myself
Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
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Fake Philosophy Truth
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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Alone Finding Himself Man Nature Thinking
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
But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.
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Desire Oneself
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
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
There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
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Interest Person Shock
Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.
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Acceptance Goodness Hard Time Knowledge Worst
The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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Death Enemy Knowledge Virtue
Another occupation might have been better.
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Better Choice Job Occupation
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
The one self- knowledge worth having is to know one’s own mind.
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Discover Knowledge Mindset Oneself Worth

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