F.H. Bradley: Miscellaneous Writings
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“I can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.”
“The propriety of some persons seems to consist in having improper thoughts about their neighbors.”
“An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.”
“The one self- knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.”
“There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.”
“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.”
Source: F.H. Bradley: Miscellaneous Writings
“Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.”
“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.”
“But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.”
“Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct.”
Source: Ethical Studies
“The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.”
Source: F.H. Bradley: Miscellaneous Writings
“True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.”
“There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth.”
Source: F.H. Bradley: Miscellaneous Writings
“Another occupation might have been better.”
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“The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.”
Source: F.H. Bradley: Miscellaneous Writings