Quotes of Francis Herbert Bradley - somelinesforyou

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

- Francis Herbert 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.". ”

- Francis Herbert Bradley

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

- Francis Herbert Bradley

“ Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct; but to find these reasons is no less an instinct. ”

- Francis Herbert Bradley

“ Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false. ”

- Francis Herbert Bradley

“ There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us. ”

- Francis Herbert Bradley

“ The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care. ”

- Francis Herbert Bradley

“ There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us. ”

- Francis Herbert Bradley

“ There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us. ”

- Francis Herbert Bradley

“ The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness. ”

- Francis Herbert Bradley

“ 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. ”

- Francis Herbert Bradley

“ True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall, he would be willing to repeat. ”

- Francis Herbert Bradley

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

- Francis Herbert Bradley

“ Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false. ”

- Francis Herbert Bradley

“ The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil. ”

- Francis Herbert Bradley

“ Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false. ”

- Francis Herbert Bradley

“ True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall, he would be willing to repeat. ”

- Francis Herbert 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. ”

- Francis Herbert Bradley

“ The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care. ”

- Francis Herbert Bradley

“ There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us. ”

- Francis Herbert 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.". ”

- Francis Herbert Bradley

“ True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall, he would be willing to repeat. ”

- Francis Herbert Bradley

“ There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us. ”

- Francis Herbert Bradley

“ There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us. ”

- Francis Herbert Bradley

“ The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge. ”

- Francis Herbert Bradley

“ Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false. ”

- Francis Herbert Bradley

“ There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth. ”

- Francis Herbert Bradley

“ 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. ”

- Francis Herbert Bradley

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

- Francis Herbert Bradley

“ The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. ”

- Francis Herbert Bradley
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