His mind is so open – so open that ideas simply pass through it.
F. H. BRADLEYThe man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
More F. H. Bradley Quotes
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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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It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.
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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 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 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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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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Few people would not be the worse for complete sincerity.
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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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Religion is rather the attempt to express the complete reality of goodness through every aspect of our being.
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Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.
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Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
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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 deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.
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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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