Another occupation might have been better.
F. H. BRADLEYWe 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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Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
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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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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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Few people would not be the worse for complete sincerity.
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There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
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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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Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.
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Up to a certain point every man is what he thinks he is.
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The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
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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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Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct.
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The propriety of some persons seems to consist in having improper thoughts about their neighbors.
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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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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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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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