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

F. H. Bradley

An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.
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Experience Fix Genuine Impression True
Few people would not be the worse for complete sincerity.
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People Sincere Worst
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
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
The propriety of some persons seems to consist in having improper thoughts about their neighbors.
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Neighbor Person Thinking
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 deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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Death Enemy Knowledge Virtue
His mind is so open – so open that ideas simply pass through it.
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Ideas Mindset Open Simplicity
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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Goodness Reason Teaching
But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.
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Desire Oneself
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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Arrival Children Knowledge Marriage Wife
Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
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Fake Philosophy Truth
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

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

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