Up to a certain point every man is what he thinks he is. 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 acceptance self knowledge The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness. F. H. Bradley admiration secret happiness The propriety of some persons seems to consist in having improper thoughts about their neighbors. F. H. Bradley propriety neighbor persons 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 desire men thinking 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 hunters mind water 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 knows men world His mind is so open - so open that ideas simply pass through it. F. H. Bradley sarcastic mind ideas 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 entrepreneur running long Religion is rather the attempt to express the complete reality of goodness through every aspect of our being. F. H. Bradley aspect goodness reality Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false. F. H. Bradley fake-people truth people 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 aphorism genuine fixed 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-day girl inspiring 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 suicidal suicide blow 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 teach goodness reason But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot. F. H. Bradley suicidal suicide Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct. F. H. Bradley instinct reason believe True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat. F. H. Bradley silence would-be men 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 circles self fall 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 suffering wise sympathy
