Another occupation might have been better.
F. H. BRADLEYHis mind is so open – so open that ideas simply pass through it.
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The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
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An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.
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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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Up to a certain point every man is what he thinks he is.
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I can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.
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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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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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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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There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
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Religion is rather the attempt to express the complete reality of goodness through every aspect of our being.
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The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.
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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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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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Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.
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