21 ordspråk av Francis Herbert Bradley
Francis Herbert Bradley
 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. |
| An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience |
| An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience |
| Another occupation might have been better. |
| Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false. |
| I am glad to think my work has been of use to anyone. But that it deserves the time & trouble involved in an elaborate study I find difficult to believe. In other words the same pains bestowed on one of the well-known masters in the subject would in my opinion be better rewarded. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct; but to find these reasons is no less an instinct |
| 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.'' |
| Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart's blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink. |
| The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge. |
| The force of the blow depends on the resistance. It is sometimes better not to struggle against temptation. Either fly or yield at once. |
| The mood in which my book was conceived and executed, was in fact to some extent a passing one. |
| The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind. |
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