F. H. Bradley Quotes

Francis Herbert Bradley was a British idealist philosopher. His most important work was Appearance and Reality . Wikipedia  

✵ 30. January 1846 – 18. September 1924
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Famous F. H. Bradley Quotes

“Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.”

No. 6.
Aphorisms (1930)

F. H. Bradley Quotes about knowledge

“The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one’s own mind.”

No. 8.
Aphorisms (1930)

“The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.”

No. 68.
Aphorisms (1930)

F. H. Bradley Quotes

“Of Optimism I have said that "The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil."”

Appearance and Reality, preface http://books.google.com/books?id=EtgtAAAAYAAJ&q=%22of+optimism+I+have+said+that+The+world+is+the+best+of+all+possible+worlds+and+everything+in+it+is+a+necessary+evil%22&pg=PR14#v=onepage (1893).

“The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.”

No. 63.
Aphorisms (1930)

“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.
No. 94.
Aphorisms (1930)

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