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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.

— F. H. Bradley Aphorisms (1930)

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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."

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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