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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.

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Will Durant
Age: 96 †
Born: 1885
Born: November 5
Died: 1981
Died: November 7
Historian
Philosopher
Writer
North Adams
Massachusetts
William James Will Durant
William James Durant
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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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There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
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Can a civilization hold together if man abandons his faith in God?
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If a man is fortunate he will, before he dies, gather up as much as he can of his civilized heritage and transmit it to his children.
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Sixty years ago I knew everything. Now I know nothing. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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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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India will teach us the tolerance and gentleness of mature mind, understanding spirit and a unifying, pacifying love for all human beings.
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Science tells us how to heal and how to kill it reduces our death rate in retail and then kills us wholesale in war but only wisdom - desire coordinated in the light of all experience - can tell us when to heal and when to kill.
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Philosophy begins when one learns to doubt -- particularly to doubt one's cherished beliefs, one's dogmas and one's axioms.
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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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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art it arises in hypothesis and flows into achievement.
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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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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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The South creates the civilizations, the North conquers them, ruins them, borrows from them, spreads them: this is one summary of history.
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We teach more by what we are than by what we teach.
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To give life a meaning, one must have a purpose larger than self.
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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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When liberty destroys order the hunger for order will destroy liberty.
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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos.
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