Quote #2
Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct; but to find these reasons is no less an instinct.
More from F. H. Bradley
- The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.
- Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
- The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.
- True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.
- There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
- 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 happe…
- 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.
- Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart's blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink.