Up to a certain point every man is what he thinks he is.
F. H. BRADLEYEclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
More F. H. Bradley Quotes
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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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The propriety of some persons seems to consist in having improper thoughts about their neighbors.
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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 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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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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But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.
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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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There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth.
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There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
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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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True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.
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An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.
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The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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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 secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
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