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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
Pilot
Pilots
Education
Knowledge
Eye
Desire
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Soul

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In Constantinople, more Christians were slaughtered by Christians in the years 342-343 than by all the persecutions by pagans in the history of Rome.
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As to harmonizing the theory of evolution with the Biblical account of creation, I do not believe it can be done, and I do not see why it should be. The story of Genesis is beautiful, and profoundly significant as symbolism: there is no good reason to torture it into conformity with modern theory.
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Forced to choose, the poor, like the rich, love money more than political liberty and the only political freedom capable of enduring is one that is so pruned as to keep the rich from denuding the poor by ability or subtlety and the poor from robbing the rich by violence or votes.
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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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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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Civilizaton is the interval between Ice Ages.
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There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
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Man is an emotional animal, occasionally rational and through his feelings he can be deceived to his heart's content.
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Those who have suffered much become very bitter or very gentle.
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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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Knowledge that does not generate achievement is a pale and bloodless thing, unworthy of mankind.
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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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I have tried to be impartial, though I know that a man's past always colors his views, and that nothing else is so irritating as impartiality.
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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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As knowledge grew, fear decreased men thought less of worshiping the unknown, and more of overcoming it.
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War is one of the constants of history, and it has not diminished with civilization or democracy.
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The health of nations is more important than the wealth of nations.
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It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.
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It came to me that reform should begin at home, and since that day I have not had time to remake the world.
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Drunkenness was in good repute in England till Bloody Mary frowned upon it it remained popular in Germany. The French drank more stably, not being quite so cold.
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