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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

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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
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History reports that the men who can manage men manage the men who can manage only things, and the men who can manage money manage all.
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The concentration of wealth is a natural result of this concentration of ability, and regularly recurs in history. The rate of concentration varies (other factors being equal) with the economic freedom permitted by morals and laws.
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If I were rich I would have many books, and I would pamper myself with bindings bright to the eye and soft to the touch, paper generously opaque, and type such as men designed when printing was very young. I would dress my gods in leather and gold, and burn candles of worship before them at night, and string their names like beads on a string.
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Philosophy is harmonized knowledge making a harmonious life it is the self-discipline which lifts us to serenity and freedom. Knowledge is power, but only wisdom is liberty.
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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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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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In its youth a people produce mythology and poetry in its decadence, philosophy and logic.
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The world wisely prefers happiness to wisdom.
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There is hardly an absurdity of the past that cannot be found flourishing somewhere in the present.
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Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard
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Rome remained great as long as she had enemies who forced her to unity, vision, and heroism. When she had overcome them all she flourished for a moment and then began to die.
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The greatest question of our time is not communism vs. individualism, not Europe vs. America, not even the East vs. the West it is whether men can bear to live without God.
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A civilization is born Stoic and dies Epicurean.
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History offers some consolation by reminding us that sin has flourished in every age.
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The Institutional Church (ecclesia) has killed only two kinds of people: Those who do not believe in the teachings of Jesus Christ, and those who do.
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In progressive societies the concentration[of wealth] may reach a point where the strength of number in the many poor rivals the strength of ability in the few rich then the unstable equilibrium generates a critical situation, which history has diversely met by legislation redistributing wealth or by revolution distributing poverty.
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In philosophy, as in politics, the longest distance between two points is a straight line.
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Tolerance grows only when faith loses certainty certainty is murderous.
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Christianity did not destroy paganism it adopted it.
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Never put a man in the wrong. He will hold it against you forever.
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