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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.

~F. H. Bradley

Topics: Another Answered Blow Brains Cannot Long Often Out Said Should Suicide Them Too

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

~F. H. Bradley

Topics: Admire Desiring Happiness Secret The Secret Of Without

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

~F. H. Bradley

Topics: Dislike Find Indecent Naked Something Those Truth Who

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

~F. H. Bradley

Topics: Having Know Mind Own Self-Knowledge Worth

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The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.

~F. H. Bradley

Topics: Best Everything Evil Necessary Necessary Evil Possible World Worlds

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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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Topics: Children Doll Girl Her More Most Mother Mothers Perhaps Say Still True

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It is good to know what a man is, and also what the world takes him for. But you do not understand him until you have learnt how he understands himself.

~F. H. Bradley

Topics: Also Good He Him Himself How Know Learnt Man Takes Understand Understands Until World You

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Another occupation might have been better.

~F. H. Bradley

Topics: Another Been Better Might Occupation

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The mood in which my book was conceived and executed, was in fact to some extent a passing one.

~F. H. Bradley

Topics: Book Conceived Executed Extent Fact In Fact Mood Passing Some Which

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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

Topics: Bad Believe Find Finding Instinct Less Metaphysics Reasons

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Philosopher

Born: January 30th, 1846

Died: September 18th, 1924

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