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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
Free
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When liberty exceeds intelligence, it begets chaos, which begets dictatorship.
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Who will dare to write a history of human goodness?
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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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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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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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Can a civilization hold together if man abandons his faith in God?
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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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History seldom destroys that which does not deserve to die and the burning of the tares makes for the next sowing a richer soil.
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When liberty destroys order the hunger for order will destroy liberty.
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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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Even when repressed, inequality grows only the man who is below the average in economic ability desires equality those who are conscious of superior ability desire freedom, and in the end superior ability has its way.
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The only real revolution is in the enlightenment of the mind and the improvement of character, the only real emancipation is individual, and the only real revolutionists are philosophers and saints.
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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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Education is the transformation of civilisation
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Freedom and equality are naturan born enemies.
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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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We have conferred a mystic popularity upon officials whose only virtue is their timidity while our scorn of rebels and reformers is so great that we have ceased to persecute them. The capitals and governments of the world are in the hands of caution and change comes over them only in the night, unseen.
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In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.
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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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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos.
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