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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

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
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
Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
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Fake Philosophy Truth
The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
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Care Fear Man
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
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
I can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.
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Experience Myself
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
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
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
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
Another occupation might have been better.
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Better Choice Job Occupation
The one self- knowledge worth having is to know one’s own mind.
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Discover Knowledge Mindset Oneself Worth
There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
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Interest Person Shock

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