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The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.

F. H. Bradley

The one self- knowledge worth having is to know one’s own mind.
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Discover Knowledge Mindset Oneself Worth
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
Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
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Fake Philosophy Truth
Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.
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Acceptance Goodness Hard Time Knowledge Worst
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
Another occupation might have been better.
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Better Choice Job Occupation
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
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 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
Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct.
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Bad Believe Finding Instinct Physics Reason
The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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Death Enemy Knowledge Virtue
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
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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Goodness Reason Teaching
I can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.
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Experience Myself
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
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

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