The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
F. H. BRADLEYMetaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct.
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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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I can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.
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The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
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Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct.
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The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
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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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Another occupation might have been better.
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Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
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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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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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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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The propriety of some persons seems to consist in having improper thoughts about their neighbors.
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His mind is so open – so open that ideas simply pass through it.
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The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.
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Up to a certain point every man is what he thinks he is.
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