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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.

F. H. Bradley

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
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
Another occupation might have been better.
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Better Choice Job Occupation
His mind is so open – so open that ideas simply pass through it.
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Ideas Mindset Open Simplicity
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
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
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
One said of suicide, As long as one has brains one should not blow them out. And another answered, But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.
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Answer Brain Oneself Suicide
The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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Death Enemy Knowledge Virtue
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
Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
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Fake Philosophy Truth
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
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Admire Happiness Secret
Few people would not be the worse for complete sincerity.
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People Sincere Worst

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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