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F.H. Bradley
“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

Emil M. Cioran
“It is no nation that we inhabit, but a language. Make no mistake; our native toungue is our true fatherland.”
Emil Cioran

Thomas Reid
“Philosophy has no other root but the principles of common sense.; it grows out from them, and draws its nourishment from them; severed from this root, its honours wither up, its sap is dried up, it dies and rots.”
Thomas Reid, Essays on the Active Powers of the Human Mind ; An Inquiry Into the Human Mind on the Principles of Common Sense ; and An Essay on Quantity

Leo Tolstoy
“To evoke in oneself a feeling one has once experienced, and having evoked it in oneself, then, by means of movements, lines, colors, sounds, or forms expressed in words, so to transmit that feeling that others may experience the same feeling—this is the activity of art.”
Leo Tolstoy, What is Art?

Baruch Spinoza
“Tyranny is most violent where individual beliefs, which are an inalienable right, are regarded as criminal.”
Baruch Spinoza, Theological-Political Treatise

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