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- Literature and philosophy both allow past idols to be resurrected with a frequency which would be truly distressing to a sober scientist.
- Promiscuity is like never reading past the first page. Monogamy is like reading the same book over and over.
- Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.
- Again, both literature and philosophy work by appealing to certain reigning idols.
- Let philosophy resolutely aim to be as scientific as possible, but let her not forget her strong kinship with literature.
- If religion cannot restrain evil, it cannot claim effective power for good.