His mind is so open – so open that ideas simply pass through it.
F. H. BRADLEYThe 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.
More F. H. Bradley Quotes
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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 one self- knowledge worth having is to know one’s own mind.
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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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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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Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct.
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Another occupation might have been better.
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The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
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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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Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
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Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.
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The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
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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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True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.
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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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