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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
William James Durant
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Time sanctifies everything even the most arrant theft in the hands of the robber's grandchildren becomes sacred and inviolable property.
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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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As long as there is poverty there will be gods.
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Love one another. My final lesson of history is the same as that of Jesus. You may think that's a lot of lollipop but just try it. Love is the most practical thing in the world. If you take an attitude of love toward everybody you meet, you'll eventually get along.
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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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There is no significant example in history, before our time, of a society successfully maintaining moral life without the aid of religion.
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A great civilization is not conquered from without, until it has destroyed itself from within. The essential causes of Rome's decline lay in her people, her morals, her class struggle, her failing trade, her bureaucratic despotism, her stifling taxes, her consuming wars.
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Science without philosophy, facts without perspective and valuation, cannot save us from havoc and despair. Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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Never put a man in the wrong. He will hold it against you forever.
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Who will dare to write a history of human goodness?
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We teach more by what we are than by what we teach.
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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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Tolerance grows only when faith loses certainty certainty is murderous.
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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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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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Civilization is not inherited it has to be learned and earned by each generation anew if the transmission should be interrupted for one century, civilization would die, and we should be savages again.
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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves let us be above such transparent egotism. If you can't say good and encouraging things, say nothing. Nothing is often a good thing to do, and always a clever thing to say.
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The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.
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Communism is the opiate of the people.
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Liberty is a product of order.
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