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F. H. Bradley Biography

Francis Herbert Bradley OM (30 January 1846 – 18 September 1924) was a British idealist philosopher. His most important work was Appearance and Reality (1893).

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His mind is so open - so open that ideas simply pass through it.

Ideas, Mind, Pass, Sarcastic, Simply

The Self has turned out to mean so many things, to mean them so ambiguously, and to be so wavering in its application, that we do not feel encouraged.

Ambiguously, Mean, Self, Turned, Wavering

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

Care, Fear, Man, Men

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

Writing, Heart, Blood, Cold, Epigrams

The one self- knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.

Knowledge, Acceptance, Self, Know, Mind

Reason teaches us that what is good is good for something, and that what is good for nothing is not good at all.

Good, Goodness, Reason, Teach, Teaches

An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.

Aphorism, Fixed, Genuine, Impression, True

The cost of a thing is what I call life which has to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

Entrepreneur, Life, Long, Run, Running, Thing

Another occupation might have been better.

Might, Might Have Been, Occupation

Religion is rather the attempt to express the complete reality of goodness through every aspect of our being.

Aspect, Attempt, Goodness, Reality, Religion

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.

Christian, Ignore, Party, Teaching, Teachings

Up to a certain point every man is what he thinks he is.

Certain, Crazy, Men, Point, Thinking, Thinks

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.

Adam, Knowledge, Men, Pity, Wife

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

Cease, Gossip, Persons, Scandal, Shock

The hunter for aphorisms on human nature has to fish in muddy water, and he is even condemned to find much of his own mind.

Aphorisms, Hunter, Hunters, Mind, Water

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.

Doll, Girl, Inspiring, Mothers Day, True

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.

Answered, Blow, Ceased, Suicidal, Suicide

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

Admiration, Admire, Desiring, Happiness, Secret

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.

Become, Change, Suffering, Sympathy, Uninteresting, Wise

Few people would not be the worse for complete sincerity.

Complete, People, Sincerity, Worse

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