The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge. F. H. Bradley More Quotes by F. H. Bradley More Quotes From F. H. Bradley 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 sufferingwisesympathy There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us. F. H. Bradley gossipscandalshock 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 yieldstruggleblow The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil. F. H. Bradley optimismevilworld 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 pitywifemen 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 partyteachingchristian There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth. F. H. Bradley nuditynakeddislike 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 waveringselfmean The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care. F. H. Bradley carefearmen Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst. F. H. Bradley anxietybe-goodworst Another occupation might have been better. F. H. Bradley might-have-beenoccupationmight 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 heartwritingblood Few people would not be the worse for complete sincerity. F. H. Bradley sinceritypeople The mood in which my book was conceived and executed, was in fact to some extent a passing one. F. H. Bradley factsomemoodbook 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 findingfindbadbelieve
