F. H. Bradley was a celebrated British idealist philosopher. In 1865, after a number of attempts, he got through with a fellowship into the University College of ‘Oxford University.' His works, writings, thoughts, and viewpoints had an enormous impact on the British philosophy and society. He was regarded as one of the most decisive, original and theoretically robust idealists. Some of his renowned works include, ‘The Principles of Logic,’ ‘Appearance and Reality,’ ‘Ethical Studies,' ‘Essays on Truth and Reality’ and various others. He was honoured with a number of accolades and awards including ‘Order of Merit’ which made him the first British to hold this feat. We have compiled some thought-provoking, popular, interesting, inspiring and famous quotes and sayings by the most philosophically influential of the British Idealists. Browse through the collection of quotes and thoughts by F. H. Bradley that hold a sea of wisdom.
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
Eclecticism - every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
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
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.
The mood in which my book was conceived and executed, was in fact to some extent a passing one.
F. H. Bradley
The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
F. H. Bradley
Another occupation might have been better.
F. H. Bradley
The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.
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 himself.
