The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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 one self- knowledge worth having is to know one’s own mind.
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I can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.
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The propriety of some persons seems to consist in having improper thoughts about their neighbors.
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But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.
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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 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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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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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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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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Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct.
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Up to a certain point every man is what he thinks he is.
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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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There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
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Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.
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