There are those who understand everything till one puts it into words.
—F. H. Bradley
Topics: Words
True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.
—F. H. Bradley
Topics: Repentance, Forgiveness
Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
—F. H. Bradley
Topics: Truth
There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
—F. H. Bradley
Topics: Shame
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
—F. H. Bradley
Topics: Money, Happiness, Success, One liners, Desire, Admiration
The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one’s own mind.
—F. H. Bradley
Topics: Self-Knowledge, Identity
The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
—F. H. Bradley
Topics: Virtue
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.
—F. H. Bradley
Topics: Suffering
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: Philosophy
There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth.
—F. 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.
—F. H. Bradley
Topics: Wives, Marriage
Reason teaches us that what is good is good for something, and that what is good for nothing is not good at all.
—F. H. Bradley
Topics: Goodness
The force of the blow depends on the resistance. It is sometimes better not to struggle against temptation. Either fly or yield at once.
—F. H. Bradley
Topics: Temptation
Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.
—F. H. Bradley
Topics: Anxiety, Worry
Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart’s blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink.
—F. H. Bradley
Topics: Proverbial Wisdom
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: Suicide
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.
—F. H. Bradley
Topics: Children, Girls
The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
—F. H. Bradley
Topics: Fear
The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.
—F. H. Bradley
Topics: Optimism
Wondering Whom to Read Next?
- R. G. Collingwood British Historian, Philosopher
- John Stuart Mill English Philosopher, Economist
- Charles Sanders Peirce American Philosopher
- Bertrand A. Russell British Philosopher, Mathematician
- Alan Watts British-American Philosopher
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Austrian-born British Philosopher
- David Hume Scottish Philosopher, Historian
- Colin Wilson British Philosopher
- C. S. Lewis Irish-born Author, Scholar
- Arthur Schopenhauer German Philosopher
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