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
aphorism genuine fixed
An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.
books-and-reading conceived extent passing
The mood in which my book was conceived and executed, was in fact to some extent a passing one.
bad believe
Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct; but to find these reasons is no less an instinct.
optimism evil necessary-evil
The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.
mean self wavering
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.
heart writing blood
Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart's blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink.
suicide suicidal blow
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.
fall self circles
My external sensations are no less private to my self than are my thoughts or my feelings. In either case my experience falls within my own circle, a circle closed on the outside; and, with all its elements alike, every sphere is opaque to the others which surround it [] In brief, regarded as an existence which appears in a soul, the whole world for each is peculiar and private to that soul.
i-can
I can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.
men thinking desire
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.
christian teaching party
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.
people sincerity
Few people would not be the worse for complete sincerity.
reason goodness teach
Reason teaches us that what is good is good for something, and that what is good for nothing is not good at all.
neighbor propriety persons
The propriety of some persons seems to consist in having improper thoughts about their neighbors.