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By AnonymF. H. 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.
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By AnonymF. H. Bradley
An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.
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By AnonymF. H. Bradley
But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.
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By AnonymF. H. Bradley
Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
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By AnonymF. H. Bradley
Few people would not be the worse for complete sincerity.
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By AnonymF. H. Bradley
His mind is so open - so open that ideas simply pass through it.
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By AnonymF. H. Bradley
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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By AnonymF. H. Bradley
Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct.
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By AnonymF. H. Bradley
My external sensations are no less private to my self than are my thoughts or my feelings. In either case my experience falls within my own circle, a circle closed on the outside... the whole world for each is peculiar and private to that soul.
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By AnonymF. H. Bradley
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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By AnonymF. H. Bradley
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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By AnonymF. H. Bradley
Reason teaches us that what is good is good for something, and that what is good for nothing is not good at all.
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By AnonymF. H. Bradley
The cost of a thing is what I call life which has to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
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By AnonymF. H. Bradley
The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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By AnonymF. H. Bradley
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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By AnonymF. H. Bradley
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.
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By AnonymF. H. Bradley
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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By AnonymF. H. Bradley
The one self- knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.
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By AnonymF. H. Bradley
The propriety of some persons seems to consist in having improper thoughts about their neighbors.
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By AnonymF. H. Bradley
There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
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By AnonymF. H. Bradley
There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth.
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By AnonymF. H. Bradley
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
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By AnonymF. H. Bradley
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.
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By AnonymF. H. Bradley
The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.
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By AnonymF. H. Bradley
True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.
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By AnonymF. H. Bradley
Up to a certain point every man is what he thinks he is.
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By AnonymF. H. Bradley
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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By AnonymF. H. Bradley
Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.
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By AnonymF. H. Bradley
When I hear that "Possession is the grave of love," I remember that a religion may begin with the resurrection.
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