F. H. Bradley Quotes - Page 2

• There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth.

  F. H. Bradley

  Naked, Nudity, Dislike

  F.H. Bradley, Carol Keene (1999). “F.H. Bradley: Miscellaneous Writings”, Thoemmes

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• Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.

  F. H. Bradley

  Anxiety, Worst, Be Good

  'Appearance and Reality' (1893) preface (on pessimism)

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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.

  F. H. Bradley

  Suicide, Suicidal, Blow

  "Aphorisms". Book by F. H. Bradley, 1930.

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• Few people would not be the worse for complete sincerity.

  F. H. Bradley

  People, Sincerity

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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.

  F. H. Bradley

  Sympathy, Wise, Suffering

  "Aphorisms". Book by F. H. Bradley (Aphorism No. 22), 1930.

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• The Self has turned out to mean so many things, to mean them so ambiguously, and to be so wavering in its application, that we do not feel encouraged.

  F. H. Bradley

  Mean, Self, Wavering

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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.

  F. H. Bradley

  Writing, Heart, Blood

  "Aphorisms". Book by F. H. Bradley No. 25, 1930.

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• Another occupation might have been better.

  F. H. Bradley

  Occupation, Might, Might Have Been

  F.H. Bradley, Carol Keene (1999). “F.H. Bradley: Miscellaneous Writings”, Thoemmes

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• 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.

  F. H. Bradley

  Christian, Party, Teaching

  "The Limits of Individual and National Self-Sacrifice" by F. H. Bradley, 1894.

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