British - Philosopher | January 30, 1846 - September 18, 1924
Eclecticism - every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
F. H. Bradley
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The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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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 dull ink.
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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.
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The force of the blow depends on the resistance. It is sometimes better not to struggle against temptation. Either fly or yield at once.
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True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.
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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.
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