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Of Optimism I have said that "The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil."

— F. H. Bradley

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

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

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Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct; but to find these reasons is no less an instinct.

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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