But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.
F. H. BRADLEYBut when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.
F. H. BRADLEYReason teaches us that what is good is good for something, and that what is good for nothing is not good at all.
F. H. BRADLEYUp to a certain point every man is what he thinks he is.
F. H. BRADLEYIt 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.
F. H. BRADLEYReligion is rather the attempt to express the complete reality of goodness through every aspect of our being.
F. H. BRADLEYIt 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.
F. H. BRADLEYHis mind is so open – so open that ideas simply pass through it.
F. H. BRADLEYMetaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct.
F. H. BRADLEYOne 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.
F. H. BRADLEYThe one self- knowledge worth having is to know one’s own mind.
F. H. BRADLEYMy 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.
F. H. BRADLEYAnother occupation might have been better.
F. H. BRADLEYWe say that a girl with her doll anticipates the mother. It is more true, perhaps, that most mothers are still but children with playthings.
F. H. BRADLEYThere are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth.
F. H. BRADLEYThe man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
F. H. BRADLEYAn aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.
F. H. BRADLEY