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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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Nature smiles at the union of freedom and equality in our utopias. For freedom and equality are sworn and everlasting enemies, and when one prevails the other dies.
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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos.
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The individual succumbs, but he does not die if he has left something to mankind.
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In the last analysis civilization is based upon the food supply.
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From barbarism to civilization requires a century from civilization to barbarism needs but a day.
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Truth will not make us rich, but it will make us free.
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Grow strong, my comrade … that you may stand Unshaken when I fall that I may know The shattered fragments of my song will come At last to finer melody in you That I may tell my heart that you begin Where passing I leave off, and fathom more.
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The crossroads of trade are the meeting place of ideas, the attrition ground of rival customs and beliefs diversities beget conflict, comparison, thought superstitions cancel one another, and reason begins.
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As to harmonizing the theory of evolution with the Biblical account of creation, I do not believe it can be done, and I do not see why it should be. The story of Genesis is beautiful, and profoundly significant as symbolism: there is no good reason to torture it into conformity with modern theory.
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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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Music and religion are as intimately related as poetry and love the deepest emotions require for their civilized expression the most emotional of arts.
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If our economy of freedom fails to distribute wealth as ably as it has created it, the road to dictatorship will be open to any man who can persuasively promise security to all.
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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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No man who is in a hurry is quite civilized.
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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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When liberty destroys order the hunger for order will destroy liberty.
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The future never just happened. It was created.
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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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In philosophy, as in politics, the longest distance between two points is a straight line.
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Those who know nothing about history are doomed forever to repeat it.
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