32 Quotes by F.H. Bradley

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

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

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.

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.

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

I can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.

Everything less than the Universe is an abstraction.

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.

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