Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false. F. H. Bradley More Quotes by F. H. Bradley More Quotes From F. H. Bradley The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge. F. H. Bradley virtue self would-be There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us. F. H. Bradley gossip scandal shock 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 yield struggle blow The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil. F. H. Bradley optimism evil world 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 pity wife men 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 party teaching christian There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth. F. H. Bradley nudity naked dislike The Self has turned out to mean so many things, to mean them so ambiguously, and to be so wavering in its application, that we do not feel encouraged. F. H. Bradley wavering self mean The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care. F. H. Bradley care fear men Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst. F. H. Bradley anxiety be-good worst Another occupation might have been better. F. H. Bradley might-have-been occupation might 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 heart writing blood Few people would not be the worse for complete sincerity. F. H. Bradley sincerity people The mood in which my book was conceived and executed, was in fact to some extent a passing one. F. H. Bradley fact some mood book 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 finding find bad believe
