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.
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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The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
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Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
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The one self- knowledge worth having is to know one’s own mind.
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The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
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An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.
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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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The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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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.
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His mind is so open – so open that ideas simply pass through it.
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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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Up to a certain point every man is what he thinks he is.
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I can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.
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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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Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart’s blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink.
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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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