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

F. H. Bradley

Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct.
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Bad Believe Finding Instinct Physics Reason
The cost of a thing is what I call life which has to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
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Cost exchange Myself Price Run
An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.
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Experience Fix Genuine Impression True
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
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
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
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
We say that a girl with her doll anticipates the mother. It is more true, perhaps, that most mothers are still but children with playthings.
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Children Daughter Herself Mom Play
There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
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Interest Person Shock
The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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Death Enemy Knowledge Virtue
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
Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.
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Acceptance Goodness Hard Time Knowledge Worst
I can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.
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Experience Myself
His mind is so open – so open that ideas simply pass through it.
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Ideas Mindset Open Simplicity
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

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