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

F. H. Bradley

Another occupation might have been better.
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Better Choice Job Occupation
An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.
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Experience Fix Genuine Impression True
There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth.
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Finding Naked Philosophy Truth
True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.
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Repeat Silence True Willing
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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Application Encouragement Feeling
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
His mind is so open – so open that ideas simply pass through it.
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Ideas Mindset Open Simplicity
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 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
There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
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Interest Person Shock
It is good to know what a man is, and also what the world takes him for. But you do not understand him until you have learnt how he understands himself.
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Goodness Himself Learning Man Reputation Understand 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
The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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Death Enemy Knowledge Virtue
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
But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.
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Desire Oneself
The propriety of some persons seems to consist in having improper thoughts about their neighbors.
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Neighbor Person Thinking

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