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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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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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The soul of a civilization is its religion, and it dies with its faith.
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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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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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War is one of the constants of history, and it has not diminished with civilization or democracy.
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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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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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Caesar's armies marched on vegetarian foods.
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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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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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Nothing is new except arrangement.
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Men decided that it was better to pay taxes than to fight among themselves better to pay tribute to one magnificent robber than to bribe them all.
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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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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art it arises in hypothesis and flows into achievement.
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If man asks for many laws it is only because he is sure that his neighbor needs them privately he is an unphilosophical anarchist, and thinks laws in his own case superfluous.
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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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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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Read, think well of mankind, go to our libraries and rejoice.
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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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Every state begins in compulsion but the habits of obedience become the content of conscience, and soon every citizen thrills with loyalty to the flag. The citizen is right for however the state begins, it soon becomes an indispensable prop to order.
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