Another occupation might have been better.
F. H. BRADLEYFew people would not be the worse for complete sincerity.
More F. H. Bradley Quotes
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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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The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
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An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.
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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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Up to a certain point every man is what he thinks he is.
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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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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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My external sensations are no less private to my self than are my thoughts or my feelings. In either case my experience falls within my own circle, a circle closed on the outside… the whole world for each is peculiar and private to that soul.
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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 persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
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The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
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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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Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct.
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