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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

“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

No. 75.
Aphorisms (1930)

“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

No. 22.
Aphorisms (1930)

“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.””

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No. 48.
Aphorisms (1930)

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

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No. 6.
Aphorisms (1930)

“Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart’s blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink.”

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No. 25.
Aphorisms (1930)

F. H. Bradley Quotes about knowledge

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

F. H. Bradley

No. 8.
Aphorisms (1930)

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

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No. 68.
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.”

F. H. Bradley

No. 94.
Aphorisms (1930)

F. H. Bradley Quotes

“True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.”

F. H. Bradley

No. 10.
Aphorisms (1930)

“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

No. 23.
Aphorisms (1930)

“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

The Limits of Individual and National Self-Sacrifice.

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

F. H. Bradley book Appearance and Reality

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.”

F. H. Bradley

No. 63.
Aphorisms (1930)

“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 book Appearance and Reality

Appearance and Reality, preface (1893).

“There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth.”

F. H. Bradley

No. 88.
Aphorisms (1930)

“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

Reported by Brand Blanshard in 'Francis Herbert Bradley', Journal of Philosophy (1925).

“There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.”

F. H. Bradley

No. 20.
Aphorisms (1930)

“Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived.”

F. H. Bradley

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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