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.
F. H. BRADLEYThe man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
More F. H. Bradley Quotes
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Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct.
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There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth.
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There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
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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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The one self- knowledge worth having is to know one’s own mind.
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I can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.
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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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His mind is so open – so open that ideas simply pass through it.
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Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart’s blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink.
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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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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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Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.
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The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
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The propriety of some persons seems to consist in having improper thoughts about their neighbors.
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The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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