His mind is so open – so open that ideas simply pass through it.
F. H. BRADLEYEclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
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Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
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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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Religion is rather the attempt to express the complete reality of goodness through every aspect of our being.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth.
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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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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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The one self- knowledge worth having is to know one’s own mind.
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Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.
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