F. H. Bradley: Finding

F. H. Bradley was British philosopher. Explore interesting quotes on finding.

F. H. Bradley: 38 quotes2 likes

“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.”

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.”

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