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

F. H. Bradley

Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
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Fake Philosophy Truth
An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.
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Experience Fix Genuine Impression True
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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Cost exchange Myself Price Run
Few people would not be the worse for complete sincerity.
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People Sincere Worst
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
But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.
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Desire Oneself
Up to a certain point every man is what he thinks he is.
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Belief Deep Man Point Self Love Thinking
There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
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Interest Person Shock
Another occupation might have been better.
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Better Choice Job Occupation
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 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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Himself Human Hunter Mindset Nature Water
The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
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Care Fear Man
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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Feeling Privacy Sensation Soul
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
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
The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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Death Enemy Knowledge Virtue

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