Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct.
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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Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.
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The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
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Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived. It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of their wives at which some men seem to arrive.
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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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There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
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His mind is so open – so open that ideas simply pass through it.
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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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Religion is rather the attempt to express the complete reality of goodness through every aspect of our being.
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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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I can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.
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The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.
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Few people would not be the worse for complete sincerity.
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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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