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

F. H. Bradley

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
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
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
The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
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Care Fear Man
His mind is so open – so open that ideas simply pass through it.
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Ideas Mindset Open Simplicity
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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Attraction Change Economy Help Sympathy Wisdom
The one self- knowledge worth having is to know one’s own mind.
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Discover Knowledge Mindset Oneself Worth
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
Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
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Fake Philosophy Truth
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
Few people would not be the worse for complete sincerity.
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People Sincere Worst
But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.
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Desire Oneself
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
I can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.
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Experience Myself
The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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Death Enemy Knowledge Virtue
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

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

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