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There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.

F. H. Bradley

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
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
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
The propriety of some persons seems to consist in having improper thoughts about their neighbors.
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Neighbor Person Thinking
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
An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.
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Experience Fix Genuine Impression True
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
Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.
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Acceptance Goodness Hard Time Knowledge Worst
Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
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Fake Philosophy Truth
The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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Death Enemy Knowledge Virtue
I can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.
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Experience Myself
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
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
Another occupation might have been better.
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Better Choice Job Occupation
Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct.
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Bad Believe Finding Instinct Physics Reason
But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.
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Desire Oneself

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