Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct.
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 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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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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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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The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
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I can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.
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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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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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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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Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.
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There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth.
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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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Few people would not be the worse for complete sincerity.
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