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"19 F. H. Bradley Quotes & Sayings

      British     /    
Born: 30 January 1846. Died: 18 September 1924 | Philosopher |

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

Worth Self-knowledge Know Mind
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There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
Cease Interest Persons Shock
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The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.

Care Fear Man Who
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The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.

Best Everything Evil Necessary
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True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.

Condemns He Man Ready
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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.

Children Doll Girl Her
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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.

Also Good He Him
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Another occupation might have been better.
Another Been Better Might
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The mood in which my book was conceived and executed, was in fact to some extent a passing one.

Book Conceived Executed Extent
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The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.

Admire Desiring Happiness Secret
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Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct; but to find these reasons is no less an instinct.

Bad Believe Find Finding
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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.

Attract Become Change Economy
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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.

Another Answered Blow Brains
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There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth.

Dislike Find Indecent Naked
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Eclecticism - every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

Any Every False Must
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The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.

Complete Deadliest Foe Self-Knowledge
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Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart's blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink.

Aphorism Blood Cold Dull
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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.

Adam Arrive Conceived Eve
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The force of the blow depends on the resistance. It is sometimes better not to struggle against temptation. Either fly or yield at once.

Against Better Blow Depends
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F. H. Bradley Quotes & Sayings