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.
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.
aphorism genuine fixed
An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.
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.
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.