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Francis H Bradley
The hunter for...
The hunter for aphorisms on human nature has to fish in muddy water, and he is even condemned to find much of his own...
His mind is...
His mind is open; yes, it is so open that nothing is retained; ideas simply pass through...
Metaphysics is the...
Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct; but to find these reasons is no less an...
True penitence condemns...
True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to...
Where everything is...
Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.
Source: In Correct...
The world is...
The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.
The secret of...
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
Our live experiences,...
Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart's blood, as we write it, turns to...
It is by...
It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become...
The man who...
The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
Source: Aphorisms, no. 63,...