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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

Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct.
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Bad Believe Finding Instinct Physics Reason
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
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
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
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
The propriety of some persons seems to consist in having improper thoughts about their neighbors.
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Neighbor Person Thinking
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 world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.
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Best Evil Necessary Possible World
It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.
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Attraction Change Economy Help Sympathy Wisdom
I can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.
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Experience Myself
There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
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Interest Person Shock
But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.
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Desire Oneself
An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.
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Experience Fix Genuine Impression True
The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
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Care Fear Man

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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