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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.

F. H. Bradley

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
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
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
Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.
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Acceptance Goodness Hard Time Knowledge Worst
But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.
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Desire Oneself
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
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Admire Happiness Secret
Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct.
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Bad Believe Finding Instinct Physics Reason
The one self- knowledge worth having is to know one’s own mind.
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Discover Knowledge Mindset Oneself Worth
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
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
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
Up to a certain point every man is what he thinks he is.
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Belief Deep Man Point Self Love Thinking
Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart’s blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink.
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Blood Experience Heart Live Ourselves Writing
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

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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