F. H. Bradley famous quotes

06-16-2025

The one self- knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.
-- F. H. Bradley

#Acceptance #Self #Mind
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
-- F. H. Bradley

#Happiness #Secret #Admire
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

#Girl #Mother #Children
Religion is rather the attempt to express the complete reality of goodness through every aspect of our being.
-- F. H. Bradley

#Reality #Goodness #Aspect
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

#Wise #Suffering #Needs
There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
-- F. H. Bradley

#Gossip #Shock #Interest
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

#Suicide #Suicidal #Blow
His mind is so open - so open that ideas simply pass through it.
-- F. H. Bradley

#Sarcastic #Ideas #Mind
True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.
-- F. H. Bradley

#Men #Silence #Would Be
There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth.
-- F. H. Bradley

#Naked #Dislike
Another occupation might have been better.
-- F. H. Bradley

#Occupation #Might #Might Have Been
The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.
-- F. H. Bradley

#Evil #Optimism #World
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

#Men #World
My external sensations are no less private to my self than are my thoughts or my feelings. In either case my experience falls within my own circle, a circle closed on the outside; and, with all its elements alike, every sphere is opaque to the others which surround it [] In brief, regarded as an existence which appears in a soul, the whole world for each is peculiar and private to that soul.
-- F. H. Bradley

#Fall #Self #Circles
I can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.
-- F. H. Bradley
The man whose nature is such that by one path alone his chief desire will reach consummation will try to find it on that path, whatever it may be, and whatever the world thinks of it; and if he does not, he is contemptible.
-- F. H. Bradley

#Men #Thinking #Desire
I will begin with the self-styled "Christian" party, who profess to base their morality on the New Testament. But whether it is really more Christian to follow or to ignore the teachings of the Gospels I shall not discuss.
-- F. H. Bradley

#Christian #Party #Teaching
The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
-- F. H. Bradley

#Self #Would Be #Virtue
The hunter for aphorisms on human nature has to fish in muddy water, and he is even condemned to find much of his own mind.
-- F. H. Bradley

#Water #Mind #Hunters
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

#Running #Long #Entrepreneur
Up to a certain point every man is what he thinks he is.
-- F. H. Bradley

#Crazy #Men #Thinking
Eclecticism - every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
-- F. H. Bradley

#Fake People #People #Fake
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

#Men #Wife #Pity
Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.
-- F. H. Bradley

#Worst #Be Good
The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
-- F. H. Bradley

#Fear #Men #Care
But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.
-- 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

#Writing #Heart #Blood
Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct.
-- F. H. Bradley

#Believe #Reason #Instinct
Reason teaches us that what is good is good for something, and that what is good for nothing is not good at all.
-- F. H. Bradley

#Reason #Goodness #Teach
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

#Struggle #Blow #Yield

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