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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

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
There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth.
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Finding Naked Philosophy Truth
Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct.
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Bad Believe Finding Instinct Physics Reason
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 secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
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Admire Happiness Secret
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 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 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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Beginning Discussion Follow Myself Profession
The one self- knowledge worth having is to know one’s own mind.
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Discover Knowledge Mindset Oneself Worth
Another occupation might have been better.
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Better Choice Job Occupation
Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.
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Acceptance Goodness Hard Time Knowledge Worst
There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
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Interest Person Shock
The propriety of some persons seems to consist in having improper thoughts about their neighbors.
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Neighbor Person Thinking
An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.
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Experience Fix Genuine Impression True
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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Application Encouragement Feeling
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

Goodness Himself Learning Man Reputation Understand World

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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