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Quotes from Aphorisms — F. H. Bradley

1846–1924 England

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The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one’s own mind.

Aphorisms (1930)

The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.

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The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.

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The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.

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There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth.

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“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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Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

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True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.

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

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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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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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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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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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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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