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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

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 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
His mind is so open – so open that ideas simply pass through it.
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Ideas Mindset Open Simplicity
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
Another occupation might have been better.
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Better Choice Job Occupation
There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
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Interest Person Shock
Up to a certain point every man is what he thinks he is.
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Belief Deep Man Point Self Love Thinking
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
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
The one self- knowledge worth having is to know one’s own mind.
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Discover Knowledge Mindset Oneself Worth
The man whose nature is such that by one path alone his chief desire will reach consummation will try to find it on that path, whatever it may be, and whatever the world thinks of it; and if he does not, he is contemptible.
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Alone Finding Himself Man Nature Thinking
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
Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.
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Acceptance Goodness Hard Time Knowledge Worst
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

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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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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