F.H. Bradley Quotes

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

  F.H. Bradley

  18 Copy to clipboard Copy quote
• “When I hear that "Possession is the grave of love," I remember that a religion may begin with the resurrection.”

  F.H. Bradley

  9 Copy to clipboard Copy quote

Advertisement

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

  F.H. Bradley

  8 Copy to clipboard Copy quote
• “The man who is ready to prove that metaphysical knowledge is wholly impossible has no right here to any answer. He must be referred for conviction to the body of this treatise. And he can hardly refuse to go there, since he himself has, perhaps unknowingly, entered the arena. He is a brother metaphysician with a rival theory of first principles.”

  F.H. Bradley

  5 Copy to clipboard Copy quote

Advertisement

Advertisement
• “The Secret of Happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.”

  F.H. Bradley

  5 Copy to clipboard Copy quote
• “The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one’s own mind.”

  F.H. Bradley

  2 Copy to clipboard Copy quote

Advertisement

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

  F.H. Bradley

  2 Copy to clipboard Copy quote
• “Everything less than the Universe is an abstraction.”

  F.H. Bradley

  2 Copy to clipboard Copy quote

Advertisement

Advertisement
• “One cannot remain in LOVE unless PERPETUALLY one falls in LOVE ANEW.”

  F.H. Bradley

  1 Copy to clipboard Copy 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”

  F.H. Bradley

  0 Copy to clipboard Copy quote

Advertisement

Advertisement

• “1.
  Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct; but to find these reasons is no less an instinct.
  2.
  The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.
  3.
  There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth.
  4.
  Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
  5.
  True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.
  6.
  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.
  7.
  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

  0 Copy to clipboard Copy quote

Advertisement