Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct.
F. H. BRADLEYOne 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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Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.
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True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.
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There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
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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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Up to a certain point every man is what he thinks he is.
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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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The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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The propriety of some persons seems to consist in having improper thoughts about their neighbors.
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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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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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The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
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The one self- knowledge worth having is to know one’s own mind.
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I can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.
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But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.
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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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