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

F. H. Bradley

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
But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.
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Desire Oneself
The propriety of some persons seems to consist in having improper thoughts about their neighbors.
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Neighbor Person Thinking
Up to a certain point every man is what he thinks he is.
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Belief Deep Man Point Self Love Thinking
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
Religion is rather the attempt to express the complete reality of goodness through every aspect of our being.
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Aspect Attempt Expression Goodness Ourselves Religion
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
An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.
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Experience Fix Genuine Impression True
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
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Admire Happiness Secret
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 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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Application Encouragement Feeling
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
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
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 deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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Death Enemy Knowledge Virtue

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

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