Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart's blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink.

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.