An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.
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 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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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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Another occupation might have been better.
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Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
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There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth.
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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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But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.
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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.
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The one self- knowledge worth having is to know one’s own mind.
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There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
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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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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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Few people would not be the worse for complete sincerity.
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Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart’s blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink.
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