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

F. H. Bradley

His mind is so open – so open that ideas simply pass through it.
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Ideas Mindset Open Simplicity
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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Children Daughter Herself Mom Play
There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
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Interest Person Shock
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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Alone Finding Himself Man Nature Thinking
The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
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Care Fear Man
An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.
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Experience Fix Genuine Impression True
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
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
Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct.
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Bad Believe Finding Instinct Physics Reason
Few people would not be the worse for complete sincerity.
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People Sincere Worst
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
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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Feeling Privacy Sensation Soul
The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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Death Enemy Knowledge Virtue
The propriety of some persons seems to consist in having improper thoughts about their neighbors.
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Neighbor Person Thinking
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
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

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

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