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His mind is so open – so open that ideas simply pass through it.

F. H. Bradley

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 secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
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Admire Happiness Secret
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 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
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
I can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.
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Experience Myself
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
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
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
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
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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Beginning Discussion Follow Myself Profession
Few people would not be the worse for complete sincerity.
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People Sincere Worst
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
But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.
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Desire Oneself
Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.
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Acceptance Goodness Hard Time Knowledge Worst
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

His mind is so open – so open that ideas simply pass through it.

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