"The secret of happiness is to admire without……" — F. H. Bradley
"The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness."
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F. H. Bradley
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31 Quotes by F. H. Bradley
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We say that a girl with her doll anticipates the mother. It is more true, perhaps, that most mothers are…
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There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
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One said of suicide, As long as one has brains one should not blow them out. And another answered, But…
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It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help,…
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His mind is so open - so open that ideas simply pass through it.
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Up to a certain point every man is what he thinks he is.
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Eclecticism - every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
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Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived. It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of…
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Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.
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The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
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But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.
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Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart's blood, as we write it, turns to mere…
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Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her…
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I consider fiction a very high-class form of lying. I enjoy and admire it enormously, but I don't think I'm…
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I want to be very close to someone I respect and admire and have somebody who feels the same way…
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A jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity,…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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Norway or Switzerland are two marvelous countries, I very much admire, the most advanced countries in the world in fact…
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The leaders who we admire who have been able to bring great change in the past - Gandhi, Martin Luther…
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I went through all the musicians in my life who I admire as bright, intelligent, virtuosic players.
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Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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True enthusiasm is a fine feeling whose flash I admire where-ever I see it.
— Charlotte Bronte
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Men can absent themselves from real life for their art more easily. Women are anchored into the quotidian business of…
— Geraldine Brooks
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Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. I you look at it…
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