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Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.

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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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From barbarism to civilization requires a century from civilization to barbarism needs but a day.
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When liberty exceeds intelligence, it begets chaos, which begets dictatorship.
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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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Nature smiles at the union of freedom and equality in our utopias. For freedom and equality are sworn and everlasting enemies, and when one prevails the other dies.
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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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Paul created a theology of which none but the vaguest warrants can be found in the words of Christ.
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Knowledge is power but only wisdom is liberty.
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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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