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- Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.
- The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.
- Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.
- The basic drive behind real philosophy is curiosity about the world, not interest in the writings of philosophers.
- Superstitions and belief in magic are perennial in just the same way as religion, and something near to being universal among mankind; and why this is so may be interesting, but in most cases the beliefs themselves are devoid of interesting content, at least to me.