Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart’s blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink.
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.
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Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct.
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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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Up to a certain point every man is what he thinks he is.
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His mind is so open – so open that ideas simply pass through it.
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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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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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The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
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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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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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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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But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.
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There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
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Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
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The propriety of some persons seems to consist in having improper thoughts about their neighbors.
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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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