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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

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

Goodness Reason Teaching
Few people would not be the worse for complete sincerity.
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People Sincere Worst
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
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Admire Happiness Secret
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
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
One said of suicide, As long as one has brains one should not blow them out. And another answered, But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.
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Answer Brain Oneself Suicide
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
But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.
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Desire Oneself
There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
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Interest Person Shock
Up to a certain point every man is what he thinks he is.
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Belief Deep Man Point Self Love Thinking
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
Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
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Fake Philosophy Truth
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
His mind is so open – so open that ideas simply pass through it.
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Ideas Mindset Open Simplicity
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
Another occupation might have been better.
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Better Choice Job Occupation

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