Book Quote by F. H. Bradley

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

— F. H. Bradley

The force of the blow depends on the resistance. It is sometimes better not to struggle against temptation. Either fly or yield at once.

— F. H. Bradley

The cost of a thing is what I call life which has to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

— F. H. Bradley

Religion is rather the attempt to express the complete reality of goodness through every aspect of our being.

— F. H. Bradley

The propriety of some persons seems to consist in having improper thoughts about their neighbors.

— F. H. Bradley

“One cannot remain in LOVE unless PERPETUALLY one falls in LOVE ANEW.”

— F. H. Bradley

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

— F. H. Bradley

I can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.

— F. H. Bradley

It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so…

— F. H. Bradley

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

We say that a girl with her doll anticipates the mother. It is more true, perhaps, that most mothers are still but children with…

— F. H. Bradley

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

— F. H. Bradley