The hunter for aphorisms on human nature has to fish in muddy water, and he is even condemned to find much of his own mind.

- F. H. Bradley

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

- F. H. Bradley

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.

- F. H. Bradley

The cost of a thing is what I call life which has to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

- F. H. Bradley

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 himse…

- F. H. Bradley

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

- F. H. Bradley

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.

- F. H. Bradley

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

- F. H. Bradley

His mind is so open - so open that ideas simply pass through it.

- F. H. Bradley