Francis H Bradley quotes

" The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. " # Admiration # Happiness # Secrets

" Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst. " # Anxiety

" The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care. " # Fear

" 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. " # Girls # Freedom # Power

" Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart's blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink. " # Aphorisms and Epigrams # Writers and Writing # Proverbs

" Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct; but to find these reasons is no less an instinct. " # Metaphysics # Reason # Belief

" There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth. " # Nudity # Truth # Atheism

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

" True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat. " # Repentance # Silence # Love

" There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us. " # Scandal