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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 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
The force of the blow depends on the resistance. It is sometimes better not to struggle against temptation. Either fly or yield at once.
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Blow Fly Force Resistance Temptation
An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.
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Experience Fix Genuine Impression True
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
It is good to know what a man is, and also what the world takes him for. But you do not understand him until you have learnt how he understands himself.
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Goodness Himself Learning Man Reputation Understand World
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
Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.
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Acceptance Goodness Hard Time Knowledge Worst
Up to a certain point every man is what he thinks he is.
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Belief Deep Man Point Self Love Thinking
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
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
Another occupation might have been better.
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Better Choice Job Occupation
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
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
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
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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Feeling Privacy Sensation Soul

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