Few people would not be the worse for complete sincerity.
Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct.
Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.
There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth.
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.
An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.