F. H. Bradley
F. H. Bradley
Francis Herbert Bradley OMwas a British idealist philosopher. His most important work was Appearance and Reality...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth30 January 1846
gossip shock interest
There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
men wife pity
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.
worst be-good knows
Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.
fear men care
The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
fake-people people fake
Eclecticism - every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
inspiring mothers-day girl
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.
might occupation might-have-been
Another occupation might have been better.
naked nudity dislike
There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth.
men silence would-be
True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.
self would-be virtue
The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
believe reason instinct
Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct.
wise suffering needs
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.
running long entrepreneur
The cost of a thing is what I call life which has to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
water mind hunters
The hunter for aphorisms on human nature has to fish in muddy water, and he is even condemned to find much of his own mind.