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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
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Knowledge
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Desire
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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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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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Liberty is a product of order.
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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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[H]istory assures us that civilizations decay quite leisurely.
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Civilization is not inherited it has to be learned and earned by each generation anew if the transmission should be interrupted for one century, civilization would die, and we should be savages again.
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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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Can a civilization hold together if man abandons his faith in God?
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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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To give life a meaning, one must have a purpose larger than self.
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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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Those who have suffered much become very bitter or very gentle.
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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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When liberty destroys order the hunger for order will destroy liberty.
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The world wisely prefers happiness to wisdom.
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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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I came to think of myself, not as a dance and chaos of molecules, but as a brief and minute portion of that majestic process
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It is true that even across the Himalayan barrier India has sent to the west, such gifts as grammar and logic, philosophy and fables, hypnotism and chess, and above all numerals and the decimal system.
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