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

F. H. Bradley

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
Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.
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Acceptance Goodness Hard Time Knowledge Worst
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
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Admire Happiness Secret
I can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.
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Experience Myself
Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
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Fake Philosophy Truth
Up to a certain point every man is what he thinks he is.
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Belief Deep Man Point Self Love Thinking
Few people would not be the worse for complete sincerity.
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People Sincere Worst
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
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
Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct.
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Bad Believe Finding Instinct Physics Reason
An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.
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Experience Fix Genuine Impression True
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
The force of the blow depends on the resistance. It is sometimes better not to struggle against temptation. Either fly or yield at once.
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Blow Fly Force Resistance Temptation
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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Answer Brain Oneself Suicide
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

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