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Francis Herbert Bradley Quotes

«There are those who understand everything till one puts it into words»
Author: Francis Herbert Bradley | About: Words
«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.»
«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.»
«The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.»
«Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct; but to find these reasons is no less an instinct»
«I am glad to think my work has been of use to anyone. But that it deserves the time & trouble involved in an elaborate study I find difficult to believe. In other words the same pains bestowed on one of the well-known masters in the subject would in my opinion be better rewarded.»
«The whole book was rather crude & hasty but how far it really was less useful on that account I don't know.»
«Another occupation might have been better.»
«The mood in which my book was conceived and executed, was in fact to some extent a passing one.»
«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.»

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