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.
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 secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
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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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I can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.
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The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
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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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There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
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Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct.
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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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Another occupation might have been better.
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An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.
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The one self- knowledge worth having is to know one’s own mind.
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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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His mind is so open – so open that ideas simply pass through it.
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Up to a certain point every man is what he thinks he is.
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The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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