Frasi di Francis Herbert Bradley

“La metafisica è l'arte di scoprire le ragioni non valide per le quali noi prevaliamo sull'istinto, ma cercare queste ragioni non è meno che un istinto.”

“Eclettismo. Ogni verità è così vera che nessun'altra verità può essere falsa.”

“Si dice che una ragazza con una bambola è una piccola mammina. È forse anche vero che la maggior parte della madri sono ancora bambine con giocattoli.”

“L'uomo che ha cessato di avere paura ha cessato di preoccuparsi.”

“Ci sono persone che non amano la nudità al punto che trovano qualcosa di indecente anche nella nuda verità.”

“The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.”

“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.”

“True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Of Optimism I have said that "The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil."”

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

“The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.”

“Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart’s blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink.”

“The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one’s own mind.”

“Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct; but to find these reasons is no less an instinct.”

“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.””

“Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.”

“There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth.”

“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.”

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

““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.”

“Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived.”