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
acceptance self mind
The one self- knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.
struggle blow yield
The force of the blow depends on the resistance. It is sometimes better not to struggle against temptation. Either fly or yield at once.
running long entrepreneur
The cost of a thing is what I call life which has to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
wise suffering needs
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.
self would-be virtue
The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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.
naked nudity dislike
There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth.
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.
fake-people people fake
Eclecticism - every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
worst be-good knows
Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.
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.
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.