F. H. Bradley

Another occupation might have been better. ”

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

Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart's blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink. ”

Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct; but to find these reasons is no less an instinct. ”

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

We say that a girl with her doll anticipates the mother. It is more true, perhaps, that most mothers are still but children with playthings. ”

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

Eclecticism - every truth is so true that any truth must be false. ”

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. ”

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. ”