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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.

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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
Eye
Desire
Become
Soul
Pilot
Pilots
Education
Knowledge

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We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.
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From barbarism to civilization requires a century from civilization to barbarism needs but a day.
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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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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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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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So the story of man runs in a dreary circle, because he is not yet master of the earth that holds him.
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Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.
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Those who know nothing about history are doomed forever to repeat it.
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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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Forget mistakes. Forget failure. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it. Today is your lucky day
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Truth will not make us rich, but it will make us free.
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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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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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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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The laws that Charondas gave to Catana,... A man might divorce his wife, or a wife her husband, said Charondas, but then he or she must not marry anyone younger than the divorced mate.
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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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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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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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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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