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.
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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Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct.
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I can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.
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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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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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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 propriety of some persons seems to consist in having improper thoughts about their neighbors.
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It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.
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The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
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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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His mind is so open – so open that ideas simply pass through it.
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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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Religion is rather the attempt to express the complete reality of goodness through every aspect of our being.
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An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.
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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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Few people would not be the worse for complete sincerity.
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