Top 38 Quotes & Sayings by F. H. Bradley

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Last updated on December 21, 2024.
F. H. Bradley

Francis Herbert Bradley was a British idealist philosopher. His most important work was Appearance and Reality (1893).

The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.
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
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.
The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.
Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct; but to find these reasons is no less an instinct.
The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth.
The mood in which my book was conceived and executed, was in fact to some extent a passing one.
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
The force of the blow depends on the resistance. It is sometimes better not to struggle against temptation. Either fly or yield at once.
True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.
Eclecticism - every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
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
Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart's blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink.
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.
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.
There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
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.
Another occupation might have been better.
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.
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.
His mind is so open - so open that ideas simply pass through it.
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.
Religion is rather the attempt to express the complete reality of goodness through every aspect of our being.
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.
Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
The one self- knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.
Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst. — © F. H. Bradley
Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.
The propriety of some persons seems to consist in having improper thoughts about their neighbors.
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.
Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct.
Up to a certain point every man is what he thinks he is.
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.
I can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.
An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.
Few people would not be the worse for complete sincerity.
The cost of a thing is what I call life which has to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot. — © F. H. Bradley
But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.
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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