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

F. H. Bradley

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 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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Himself Human Hunter Mindset Nature Water
Another occupation might have been better.
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Better Choice Job Occupation
True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.
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Repeat Silence True Willing
An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.
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Experience Fix Genuine Impression True
His mind is so open – so open that ideas simply pass through it.
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Ideas Mindset Open Simplicity
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
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
But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.
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Desire Oneself
Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
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Fake Philosophy Truth
The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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Death Enemy Knowledge Virtue
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
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
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
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

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