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Francis H. Bradley

Francis H. Bradley

British Philosopher

Lived from: 1846 - 1924

Category: Philosophers Country: FlagUnited Kingdom

Born: 30 january 1846 Died: 18 september 1924

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

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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.
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  • Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
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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.
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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.
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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.''
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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.
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  • The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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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.
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  • The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
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  • The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.
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  • The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.
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  • The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.
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  • There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
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  • There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth.
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  • True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.
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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.
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  • Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.
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  • Where everything is bad, it must be good to know the worst.
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What are the most famous quotes from Francis H. Bradley?

The two most famous quotes from Francis H. Bradley are:

  • "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."
  • "Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false."

When did Francis H. Bradley live?

Francis H. Bradley was born in 1846 and died in the year 1924.