Aphorisms Quotes

“Love is an idea of the fulfilment of an habitual longing, a fixed idea individualized in an object. Love, even in the same lover, is not the same with each object, for the longing holds elements diverse in number and variably mixed. Each single object, for the longing holds elements diverse in number and variably mixed. Each single object must fail, therefore, to satisfy the whole longing . And hence love, which is not narrowed, grows both dividuous and transient. It pursues the infinite and loses both itself and reality.”
― F.H. Bradley, Aphorisms

“In an intellectual aspirant the safest love is for an imaginary object, and that, perhaps, includes all love without possession. If we are to beget unrealities, we must know how to be happy with clouds.”
― F.H. Bradley, Aphorisms

“Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigram. Our heart's blood as we write it, turns to mere dull ink.”
― F.H. Bradley, Aphorisms

“If a woman loves you, you are seeking you know not what when you desire that she also understand you.”
― F.H. Bradley, Aphorisms

“It is bad to doubt if one is loved, but it may be worse past all comparison to doubt if one loves.”
― F.H. Bradley, Aphorisms

“True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.”
― F.H. Bradley, Aphorisms

“To love unsatisfied the world is a mystery, a mystery which love satisfied seems to comprehend. The latter is wrong only because it cannot be content without thinking itself right.”
― F.H. Bradley, Aphorisms

“There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth.”
― F.H. Bradley, Aphorisms

“At the beginning a man, perhaps, thinks it would be madness to love. He thinks later, perhaps, it was madness to have ever held back. He thinks last that the madness was in ever having thought at all. God is God and there is one God.”
― F.H. Bradley, Aphorisms

“The craving to be understood may in the end be merest egoism.”
― F.H. Bradley, Aphorisms