16 Quotations by Francis H. Bradley
- 1. Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived. It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of thei ...
- 2. Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
- 3. It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, be ...
- 4. Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct; but to find these reaso ...
- 5. One said of suicide, "As long as one has brains one should not blow them out." And another answered, ...
- 6. Our life experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart's blood, as we write ...
- 7. The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
- 8. The force of the blow depends on the resistance. It is sometimes better not to struggle against temp ...
- 9. The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
- 10. The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.
- 11. The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.
- 12. The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.
- 13. There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
- 14. There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth.
- 15. True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall, he would be willing to repeat.
- 16. Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.
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