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

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

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

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

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

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

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