I can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.
F. H. BRADLEYEclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
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Another occupation might have been better.
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Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct.
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His mind is so open – so open that ideas simply pass through it.
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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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Religion is rather the attempt to express the complete reality of goodness through every aspect of our being.
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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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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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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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Few people would not be the worse for complete sincerity.
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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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Up to a certain point every man is what he thinks he is.
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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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Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
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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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The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
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