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.
F. H. BRADLEYIt 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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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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Up to a certain point every man is what he thinks he is.
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The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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The one self- knowledge worth having is to know one’s own mind.
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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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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 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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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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The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.
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Few people would not be the worse for complete sincerity.
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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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Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct.
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An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.
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