Reason teaches us that what is good is good for something, and that what is good for nothing is not good at all.
F. H. BRADLEYThe secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
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The hunter for aphorisms on human nature has to fish in muddy water, and he is even condemned to find much of his own mind.
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Another occupation might have been better.
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True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.
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An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.
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His mind is so open – so open that ideas simply pass through it.
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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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But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.
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Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
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The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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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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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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Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct.
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Few people would not be the worse for complete sincerity.
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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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