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.
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 deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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His mind is so open – so open that ideas simply pass through it.
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Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
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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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There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
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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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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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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 man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
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Another occupation might have been better.
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Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct.
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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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There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth.
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The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
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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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