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Francis Herbert Bradley, né le 30 janvier 1846 à Clapham et mort à Oxford le 18 septembre 1924, est un philosophe britannique. Il est avec Bernard Bosanquet et Josiah Royce, le principal représentant de l'idéalisme britannique. Il est connu, entre autres, pour sa controverse avec Russell au sujet du statut des relations. Wikipedia  

✵ 30. janvier 1846 – 18. septembre 1924
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Francis Herbert Bradley: Citations en anglais

“The force of the blow depends on the resistance. It is sometimes better not to struggle against temptation. Either fly or yield at once.”

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F. H. Bradley

No. 75.
Aphorisms (1930)

“The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.”

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No. 33.
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.”

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No. 22.
Aphorisms (1930)

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

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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.”

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No. 23.
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“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.”

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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."”

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F. H. Bradley livre 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).

“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)

“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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Appearance and Reality, preface (1893).

“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)

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

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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.”

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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.”

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No. 20.
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““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.”

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No. 94.
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“Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived.”

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It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of their wives at which some men seem to arrive.
No. 94.
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