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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

Will Durant

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Will Durant
Age: 96 †
Born: 1885
Born: November 5
Died: 1981
Died: November 7
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North Adams
Massachusetts
William James Will Durant
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Civilizations come and go they conquer the earth and crumble into dust but faith survives every desolation.
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Even when repressed, inequality grows only the man who is below the average in economic ability desires equality those who are conscious of superior ability desire freedom, and in the end superior ability has its way.
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Drunkenness was in good repute in England till Bloody Mary frowned upon it it remained popular in Germany. The French drank more stably, not being quite so cold.
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So the story of man runs in a dreary circle, because he is not yet master of the earth that holds him.
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Cultural creation... begins where chaos and insecurity end.
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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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As knowledge grew, fear decreased men thought less of worshiping the unknown, and more of overcoming it.
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The victors called the revolution a triumph of liberty but now and then liberty in the slogans of the strong means freedom from restraint in the exploitation of the weak.
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Freedom and equality are naturan born enemies.
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It came to me that reform should begin at home, and since that day I have not had time to remake the world.
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To seek, beneath the universal strife, the hidden harmony of things.
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In philosophy, as in politics, the longest distance between two points is a straight line.
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If a man is fortunate he will, before he dies, gather up as much as he can of his civilized heritage and transmit it to his children.
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The experience of the past lives little doubt that every economic system must sooner or later rely upon some form of the profit motive to stir individuals and groups to productivity. Substitutes like slavery, police supervision, or ideological enthusiasm prove too unproductive, too expensive, or too transient.
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When liberty exceeds intelligence, it begets chaos, which begets dictatorship.
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So I should say that civilizations begin with religion and stoicism: they end with scepticism and unbelief, and the undisciplined pursuit of individual pleasure. A civilization is born stoic and dies epicurean.
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The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
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History seldom destroys that which does not deserve to die and the burning of the tares makes for the next sowing a richer soil.
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We have conferred a mystic popularity upon officials whose only virtue is their timidity while our scorn of rebels and reformers is so great that we have ceased to persecute them. The capitals and governments of the world are in the hands of caution and change comes over them only in the night, unseen.
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