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

F. H. Bradley

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
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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Answer Brain Oneself Suicide
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
Up to a certain point every man is what he thinks he is.
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Belief Deep Man Point Self Love Thinking
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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Feeling Privacy Sensation Soul
The force of the blow depends on the resistance. It is sometimes better not to struggle against temptation. Either fly or yield at once.
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Blow Fly Force Resistance Temptation
Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct.
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Bad Believe Finding Instinct Physics Reason
Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.
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Acceptance Goodness Hard Time Knowledge Worst
The propriety of some persons seems to consist in having improper thoughts about their neighbors.
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Neighbor Person Thinking
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
His mind is so open – so open that ideas simply pass through it.
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Ideas Mindset Open Simplicity
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
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 one self- knowledge worth having is to know one’s own mind.
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Discover Knowledge Mindset Oneself Worth
But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.
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Desire Oneself
The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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Death Enemy Knowledge Virtue

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