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F. H. Bradley
18 quotes
“Of Optimism I have said that "The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.”
F. H. Bradley (1846–1924) first seen 1893 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Appearance and Reality, preface (1893).
“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 (1846–1924) first seen 1893 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Appearance and Reality, preface (1893).
“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.”
F. H. Bradley (1846–1924) said by 1924 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Reported by Brand Blanshard in 'Francis Herbert Bradley', Journal of Philosophy (1925).
“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.”
F. H. Bradley (1846–1924) said by 1924 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.”
F. H. Bradley (1846–1924) said by 1924 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one’s own mind.”
F. H. Bradley (1846–1924) said by 1924 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.”
F. H. Bradley (1846–1924) said by 1924 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.”
F. H. Bradley (1846–1924) said by 1924 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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 (1846–1924) said by 1924 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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 (1846–1924) said by 1924 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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 (1846–1924) said by 1924 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.”
F. H. Bradley (1846–1924) said by 1924 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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 (1846–1924) said by 1924 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.”
F. H. Bradley (1846–1924) said by 1924 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.”
F. H. Bradley (1846–1924) said by 1924 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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 (1846–1924) said by 1924 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth.”
F. H. Bradley (1846–1924) said by 1924 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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 (1846–1924) said by 1924 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source