F. H. Bradley
F. H. Bradley
Francis Herbert Bradley OMwas a British idealist philosopher. His most important work was Appearance and Reality...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth30 January 1846
books-and-reading conceived extent passing
The mood in which my book was conceived and executed, was in fact to some extent a passing one.
bad believe
Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct; but to find these reasons is no less an instinct.
optimism evil necessary-evil
The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.
suicide suicidal blow
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.
fall self circles
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; and, with all its elements alike, every sphere is opaque to the others which surround it [] In brief, regarded as an existence which appears in a soul, the whole world for each is peculiar and private to that soul.
i-can
I can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.
christian teaching party
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.
reason goodness teach
Reason teaches us that what is good is good for something, and that what is good for nothing is not good at all.
aphorism genuine fixed
An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.
neighbor propriety persons
The propriety of some persons seems to consist in having improper thoughts about their neighbors.
gossip shock interest
There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
worst be-good knows
Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.
fear men care
The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
fake-people people fake
Eclecticism - every truth is so true that any truth must be false.