F. H. Bradley Quotes About Life, Reality, Appearance

F. H. Bradley Quotes About Life, Reality, Appearance

Francis Herbert Bradley OM January 30, 1846-September 18, 1924, was a philosopher of British idealism. Appearance and Reality (1893), his most important work, was. Bradley was born in Clapham, Surrey (now part of the Greater London area), England. He was the child of evangelical preacher Charles Bradley and second wife of Charles Emma Linton. A. This was his brother C. Bradley. Educated at Cheltenham College and Marlborough College, he read some of the Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant as a teenager. He entered Oxford University College, in 1865. He was elected to a fellowship at Merton College , Oxford, in 1870, where he lived until his death in 1924. Bradley's buried on Oxford's Holywell Cemetery.

F. H. Bradley Quotes:

It is good to know what a man is, and also what the world takes him for. But you do not understand him until you have learnt how he understands himself.

F. H. Bradley

Another occupation might have been better.

F. H. BRADLEY

The mood in which my book was conceived and executed, was in fact to some extent a passing one.

F. H. BRADLEY

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

F. H. BRADLEY

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

F. H. BRADLEY

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.

F. H. BRADLEY

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

F. H. BRADLEY

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.

F. H. BRADLEY
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