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Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct.

F. H. Bradley

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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Beginning Discussion Follow Myself Profession
The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
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Care Fear Man
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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Goodness Himself Learning Man Reputation Understand World
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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Alone Finding Himself Man Nature Thinking
The one self- knowledge worth having is to know one’s own mind.
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Discover Knowledge Mindset Oneself Worth
Few people would not be the worse for complete sincerity.
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People Sincere Worst
Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived. It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of their wives at which some men seem to arrive.
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Arrival Children Knowledge Marriage Wife
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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Blow Fly Force Resistance Temptation
The propriety of some persons seems to consist in having improper thoughts about their neighbors.
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Neighbor Person Thinking
I can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.
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Experience Myself
The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.
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Best Evil Necessary Possible World
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.
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Answer Brain Oneself Suicide
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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Children Daughter Herself Mom Play
True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.
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Repeat Silence True Willing
There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth.
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Finding Naked Philosophy Truth
The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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Death Enemy Knowledge Virtue

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