Law is a formless mass of isolated decisions.

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If religion cannot restrain evil, it cannot claim effective power for good.

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Again, both literature and philosophy work by appealing to certain reigning idols.

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If a philosophic theory is once ruled out of court, no one can tell when it will appear again.

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To be sure, the vast majority of people who are untrained can accept the results of science only on authority.

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Let philosophy resolutely aim to be as scientific as possible, but let her not forget her strong kinship with literature.

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The picture which the philosopher draws of the world is surely not one in which every stroke is necessitated by pure logic.

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Cruel persecution and intolerance are not accidents, but grow out of the very essense of religion, namely, its absolute claims.

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Cruel persecutions and intolerance are not accidents, but grow out of the very essence of religion, namely, its absolute claims.

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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.

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