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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Up to a certain point every man is what he thinks he is.
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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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The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
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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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But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.
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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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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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I can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.
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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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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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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 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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The propriety of some persons seems to consist in having improper thoughts about their neighbors.
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