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Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

F. H. Bradley

The one self- knowledge worth having is to know one’s own mind.
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Discover Knowledge Mindset Oneself Worth
Religion is rather the attempt to express the complete reality of goodness through every aspect of our being.
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Aspect Attempt Expression Goodness Ourselves Religion
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
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Admire Happiness Secret
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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Attraction Change Economy Help Sympathy Wisdom
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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Blood Experience Heart Live Ourselves Writing
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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Arrival Children Knowledge Marriage Wife
There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
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Interest Person Shock
The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.
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Best Evil Necessary Possible World
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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Children Daughter Herself Mom Play
Up to a certain point every man is what he thinks he is.
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Belief Deep Man Point Self Love Thinking
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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Himself Human Hunter Mindset Nature Water
An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.
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Experience Fix Genuine Impression True
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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Alone Finding Himself Man Nature Thinking
Few people would not be the worse for complete sincerity.
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People Sincere Worst
His mind is so open – so open that ideas simply pass through it.
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Ideas Mindset Open Simplicity
The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
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Care Fear Man

Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

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