F. H. Bradley Quotes

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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.
• There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
• 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…
• 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…
• His mind is so open - so open that ideas simply pass through it.
• Up to a certain point every man is what he thinks he is.
• Eclecticism - every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
• 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…
• The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
• Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.
• The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
• But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.
• Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart's blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink.
• Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct.
• The force of the blow depends on the resistance. It is sometimes better not to struggle against temptation. Either fly or yield at once.
• Reason teaches us that what is good is good for something, and that what is good for nothing is not good at all.
• The cost of a thing is what I call life which has to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
• The hunter for aphorisms on human nature has to fish in muddy water, and he is even condemned to find much of his own mind.
• The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
• True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.

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