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Top 30 F.H. Bradley Quotes (2025 Update)

F.H. Bradley Quote: “The one self- knowledge worth having is to know one’s own mind.”

1. “The one self- knowledge worth having is to know one’s own mind.”

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F.H. Bradley Quote: “There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth.”

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

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F.H. Bradley Quote: “Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.”

3. “Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.”

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F.H. Bradley Quote: “The hunter for aphorisms on human nature has to fish in muddy water, and he is even condemned to find much of his own mind.”

4. “The hunter for aphorisms on human nature has to fish in muddy water, and he is even condemned to find much of his own mind.”

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F.H. Bradley Quote: “Religion is rather the attempt to express the complete reality of goodness through every aspect of our being.”

5. “Religion is rather the attempt to express the complete reality of goodness through every aspect of our being.”

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F.H. Bradley Quote: “Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct.”

6. “Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct.”

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F.H. Bradley Quote: “The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.”

7. “The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.”

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F.H. Bradley Quote: “The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.”

8. “The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.”

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F.H. Bradley Quote: “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.”

9. “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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F.H. Bradley Quote: “Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart’s blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink.”

10. “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

F.H. Bradley Quote: “True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.”

11. “True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.”

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F.H. Bradley Quote: “The propriety of some persons seems to consist in having improper thoughts about their neighbors.”

12. “The propriety of some persons seems to consist in having improper thoughts about their neighbors.”

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F.H. Bradley Quote: “An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.”

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

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F.H. Bradley Quote: “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.”

14. “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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F.H. Bradley Quote: “Everything less than the Universe is an abstraction.”

15. “Everything less than the Universe is an abstraction.”

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F.H. Bradley Quote: “Eclecticism – every truth is so true that any truth must be false.”

16. “Eclecticism – every truth is so true that any truth must be false.”

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F.H. Bradley Quote: “It is good to know what a man is, and also what the world takes him for. But you do not understand him until you have learnt how he understands himself.”

17. “It is good to know what a man is, and also what the world takes him for. But you do not understand him until you have learnt how he understands himself.”

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F.H. Bradley Quote: “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.”

18. “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.”

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F.H. Bradley Quote: “The force of the blow depends on the resistance. It is sometimes better not to struggle against temptation. Either fly or yield at once.”

19. “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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F.H. Bradley Quote: “Up to a certain point every man is what he thinks he is.”

20. “Up to a certain point every man is what he thinks he is.”

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F.H. Bradley Quote: “The man whose nature is such that by one path alone his chief desire will reach consummation will try to find it on that path, whatever it may be, and whatever the world thinks of it; and if he does not, he is contemptible.”

21. “The man whose nature is such that by one path alone his chief desire will reach consummation will try to find it on that path, whatever it may be, and whatever the world thinks of it; and if he does not, he is contemptible.”

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F.H. Bradley Quote: “His mind is so open – so open that ideas simply pass through it.”

22. “His mind is so open – so open that ideas simply pass through it.”

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F.H. Bradley Quote: “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.”

23. “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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F.H. Bradley Quote: “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.”

24. “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

F.H. Bradley Quote: “There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.”

25. “There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.”

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F.H. Bradley Quote: “The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.”

26. “The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.”

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F.H. Bradley Quote: “Few people would not be the worse for complete sincerity.”

27. “Few people would not be the worse for complete sincerity.”

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F.H. Bradley Quote: “Another occupation might have been better.”

28. “Another occupation might have been better.”

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F.H. Bradley Quote: “Reason teaches us that what is good is good for something, and that what is good for nothing is not good at all.”

29. “Reason teaches us that what is good is good for something, and that what is good for nothing is not good at all.”

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F.H. Bradley Quote: “I can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.”

30. “I can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.”

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F.H. Bradley Quote: “But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.”

31. “But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.”

— F.H. Bradley

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