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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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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The propriety of some persons seems to consist in having improper thoughts about their neighbors.
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I can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.
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Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
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The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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Religion is rather the attempt to express the complete reality of goodness through every aspect of our being.
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An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.
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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 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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Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.
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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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Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct.
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The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
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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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There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth.
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