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F. H. Bradley
British
Philosopher
About the author
The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.
F. H. Bradley,
British
Philosopher
#Self
#Mind
#Worth
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
F. H. Bradley,
British
Philosopher
#Happiness
The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.
F. H. Bradley,
British
Philosopher
#World
#Evil
There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
F. H. Bradley,
British
Philosopher
#Interest
There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth.
F. H. Bradley,
British
Philosopher
#Truth
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.
F. H. Bradley,
British
Philosopher
#Children
#Mother
#Mothers
The mood in which my book was conceived and executed, was in fact to some extent a passing one.
F. H. Bradley,
British
Philosopher
#Fact
Another occupation might have been better.
F. H. Bradley,
British
Philosopher
#Occupation
True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.
F. H. Bradley,
British
Philosopher
#Man
#Silence
The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
F. H. Bradley,
British
Philosopher
#Fear
#Man
#Care
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,
British
Philosopher
#Temptation
#Force
#Struggle
#Yield
The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
F. H. Bradley,
British
Philosopher
#Self
#Virtue
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,
British
Philosopher
#Heart
#Blood
#Aphorisms
#Epigrams
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 have them, too often one cannot.
F. H. Bradley,
British
Philosopher
#Suicide
Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct; but to find these reasons is no less an instinct.
F. H. Bradley,
British
Philosopher
#Instinct
#Metaphysics
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 may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.
F. H. Bradley,
British
Philosopher
#May
#Help
#Change
#Nature
#Sympathy
#Economy
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,
British
Philosopher
#Wife
#Men
#Pity
#Knowledge
#Wives
It is good to know what a man is, and also what the world takes him for. But you do not understand him until you have learnt how he understands himself.
F. H. Bradley,
British
Philosopher
#World
#Man
Eclecticism - every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
F. H. Bradley,
British
Philosopher
#Truth