The man whose nature is such that by one path alone his chief desire will reach consummation will try to find it on that path, whatever it may be, and whatever the world thinks of it; and if he does not, he is contemptible.
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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The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
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The one self- knowledge worth having is to know one’s own mind.
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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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Few people would not be the worse for complete sincerity.
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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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The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.
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Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
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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 deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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Up to a certain point every man is what he thinks he is.
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But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.
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I can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.
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Another occupation might have been better.
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The force of the blow depends on the resistance. It is sometimes better not to struggle against temptation. Either fly or yield at once.
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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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