"The force of the blow depends on the resistance. It is sometimes better not to struggle against temptation. Either fly or yield at once."

Force, Struggle, Temptation, Yield

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"The force of the blow depends on the resistance. It is sometimes better not to struggle against temptation. Either fly or yield at once."

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"Force does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers."

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Swiss Philosopher

Force, Obedience, Right

"There's a moral force in a sentence when it comes out right. It speaks the writer's will to live."

Don DeLillo, American Novelist

Force, Right, Will, Writer

"Right reason is stronger than force."

James A. Garfield, American President

Force, Reason, Right

"It would require more hands to manage a stock of sheep, gather them from the hills, force them into houses and folds, and drive them to markets, than the profits of the whole stock were capable of maintaining."

James Hogg, Scottish Poet

Force, Houses, Sheep

"Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best."

Harold W. Dodds, American Educator

Force, Insecurity

"It's an old adage that the way to be safe is never to be secure... Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best."

Harold W. Dodds, American Educator

Force, Insecurity, Old

"The mercy caravans are through there the medicine refugees flowing out. It makes the United States look very bad here. And much more like an occupation force than it did before."

Jon Lee Anderson, American Author

Force, Medicine, Mercy, Occupation

"Every once in a while I feel the tremendous force of the novel. But it does not stay with me."

Zane Grey, American Author

Force,

"I went to Ft Bragg and learned that Delta was indeed gearing up for the rescue. Still I was concerned the Reagan staff would not be willing to take the risk of sending an official military force into Laos."

Bo Gritz, American Soldier

Force, Military, Risk

"Force is not a remedy."

John Bright, British Politician

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"The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind."

Mind

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

Evil

"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."

Suicide

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

Happiness

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

Instinct

"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."

Nature

"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."

Man

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"Force does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers."

"There's a moral force in a sentence when it comes out right. It speaks the writer's will to live."

"Right reason is stronger than force."

"It would require more hands to manage a stock of sheep, gather them from the hills, force them into houses and folds, and drive them to markets, than the profits of the whole stock were capable of maintaining."

"Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best."

"It's an old adage that the way to be safe is never to be secure... Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best."

"The mercy caravans are through there the medicine refugees flowing out. It makes the United States look very bad here. And much more like an occupation force than it did before."

"Every once in a while I feel the tremendous force of the novel. But it does not stay with me."

"I went to Ft Bragg and learned that Delta was indeed gearing up for the rescue. Still I was concerned the Reagan staff would not be willing to take the risk of sending an official military force into Laos."

"Force is not a remedy."

Explore more quotes by F. H. Bradley

"The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind."

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

"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."

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

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

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

"Another occupation might have been better."

"Eclecticism - every truth is so true that any truth must be false."

"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."