The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil. F. H. Bradley More Quotes by F. H. Bradley More Quotes From F. H. Bradley The one self- knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind. F. H. Bradley acceptanceselfknowledge The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness. F. H. Bradley admirationsecrethappiness The propriety of some persons seems to consist in having improper thoughts about their neighbors. F. H. Bradley proprietyneighborpersons 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 desirementhinking 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 huntersmindwater 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 knowsmenworld His mind is so open - so open that ideas simply pass through it. F. H. Bradley sarcasticmindideas 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 entrepreneurrunninglong Religion is rather the attempt to express the complete reality of goodness through every aspect of our being. F. H. Bradley aspectgoodnessreality Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false. F. H. Bradley fake-peopletruthpeople Up to a certain point every man is what he thinks he is. F. H. Bradley crazymenthinking I can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced. F. H. Bradley i-can An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience. F. H. Bradley aphorismgenuinefixed 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 mothers-daygirlinspiring 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 suicidalsuicideblow 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 teachgoodnessreason But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot. F. H. Bradley suicidalsuicide Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct. F. H. Bradley instinctreasonbelieve True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat. F. H. Bradley silencewould-bemen 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... the whole world for each is peculiar and private to that soul. F. H. Bradley circlesselffall
