F. H. Bradley Quotes

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

Struggle, Sometimes, Once

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

Men, Knowledge, Wife

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

Truth, Find, Naked

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

Mother, Girl, True

Another occupation might have been better.
F. H. Bradley

Another, Might, Occupation

Eclecticism - every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
F. H. Bradley

Truth, True, False

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

Change, Nature, Sympathy

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

Good, Him, Understand

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

Bad, Find, Less

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

Long, Cannot, Said

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

Live, Heart, Write

The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
F. H. Bradley

Virtue, Complete, Foe

The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
F. H. Bradley

Fear, Care, Ceased

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

Book, Fact, Mood

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

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

Happiness, Secret, Admire

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

Best, Evil, Everything

There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
F. H. Bradley

Interest, Shock, Cease

True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.
F. H. Bradley

True, Silence, Ready

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Philosopher

Born: January 30, 1846

Died: September 18, 1924

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