Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
F. H. BRADLEYFew people would not be the worse for complete sincerity.
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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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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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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 deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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I can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.
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There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
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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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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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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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But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.
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The one self- knowledge worth having is to know one’s own mind.
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Up to a certain point every man is what he thinks he is.
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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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The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
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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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