There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth.
From F. H. Bradley
The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.
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.
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
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.
Eclecticism - every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.
The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct; but to find these reasons is no less an instinct.
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