32 Quotes by F.H. Bradley

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Few people would not be the worse for complete sincerity.

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

Another occupation might have been better.