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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
Historian
Philosopher
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North Adams
Massachusetts
William James Will Durant
William James Durant
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Paul created a theology of which none but the vaguest warrants can be found in the words of Christ.
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In its youth a people produce mythology and poetry in its decadence, philosophy and logic.
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The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It's the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages.
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Truth will not make us rich, but it will make us free.
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Liberty is a luxury of security the free individual is a product and a mark of civilization.
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Progress is the domination of chaos by mind and purpose, of matter by form and will. It need not be continuous to be real.
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Liberty is a product of order.
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War is one of the constants of history, and it has not diminished with civilization or democracy.
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Nothing is new except arrangement.
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Cultivate your garden. Do not depend upon teachers to educate you... follow your own bent, pursue your curiosity bravely, express yourself, make your own harmony.
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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 teach more by what we are than by what we teach.
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We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours we are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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The time when you need to do something is when no one else is willing to do it, when people are saying it can't be done.
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How much more suffering is caused by the thought of death than by death itself.
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History repeats itself in the large because human nature changes with geological leisureliness.
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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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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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