There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us. — F. H. Bradley Interest Copy Share Image
The force of the blow depends on the resistance. It is sometimes better not to struggle against temptation. Either fly or yield… — F. H. Bradley Blow Copy Share Image
The cost of a thing is what I call life which has to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long… — F. H. Bradley Cost Copy Share Image
Religion is rather the attempt to express the complete reality of goodness through every aspect of our being. — F. H. Bradley Aspect Copy Share Image
The propriety of some persons seems to consist in having improper thoughts about their neighbors. — F. H. Bradley Neighbor Copy Share Image
“One cannot remain in LOVE unless PERPETUALLY one falls in LOVE ANEW.” — F. H. Bradley Love u Copy Share Image
True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat. — F. H. Bradley Men Copy Share Image
It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting.… — F. H. Bradley Change Copy Share Image
Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart's blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink. — F. H. Bradley Aphorism Copy Share Image
We say that a girl with her doll anticipates the mother. It is more true, perhaps, that most mothers are still but… — F. H. Bradley Anticipate Copy Share Image
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness. — F. H. Bradley Admire Copy Share Image
Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct. — F. H. Bradley Believe Copy Share Image
One said of suicide, As long as one has brains one should not blow them out. And another answered, But when one… — F. H. Bradley Blow Copy Share Image
The Self has turned out to mean so many things, to mean them so ambiguously, and to be so wavering in its… — F. H. Bradley Application Copy Share Image
It is good to know what a man is, and also what the world takes him for. But you do not understand… — F. H. Bradley Men Copy Share Image
The hunter for aphorisms on human nature has to fish in muddy water, and he is even condemned to find much of… — F. H. Bradley Aphorism Copy Share Image
Eclecticism - every truth is so true that any truth must be false. — F. H. Bradley Fake Copy Share Image
The man whose nature is such that by one path alone his chief desire will reach consummation will try to find it… — F. H. Bradley Chiefs Copy Share Image
I will begin with the self-styled "Christian" party, who profess to base their morality on the New Testament. But whether it is… — F. H. Bradley Christian Copy Share Image
My external sensations are no less private to my self than are my thoughts or my feelings. In either case my experience… — F. H. Bradley Cases Copy Share Image
The one self- knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind. — F. H. Bradley Acceptance Copy Share Image
Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct; but to find these reasons is no less an… — F. H. Bradley Bad Copy Share Image
