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.

He was the first British philosopher to be awarded the Order of Merit. Moore and Bertrand Russell in the early 1900s. Consistently his own view combined monism with absolute idealism.

Francis Herbert Bradley OM (30 January 1846 – 18 September 1924) was a British idealist philosopher.