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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
Soul
Pilot
Pilots
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Knowledge
Eye
Desire
Become

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The crossroads of trade are the meeting place of ideas, the attrition ground of rival customs and beliefs diversities beget conflict, comparison, thought superstitions cancel one another, and reason begins.
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Power dements even more than it corrupts, lowering the guard of foresight and raising the haste of action.
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Grow strong, my comrade … that you may stand Unshaken when I fall that I may know The shattered fragments of my song will come At last to finer melody in you That I may tell my heart that you begin Where passing I leave off, and fathom more.
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The past is not dead. Indeed, it is often not even past.
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I feel for all faiths the warm sympathy of one who has come to learn that even the trust in reason is a precarious faith, and that we are all fragments of darkness groping for the sun. I know no more about the ultimates than the simplest urchin in the streets.
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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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History reports that the men who can manage men manage the men who can manage only things, and the men who can manage money manage all.
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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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The fear of capitalism has compelled socialism to widen freedom, and the fear of socialism has compelled capitalism to increase equality. East is West and West is East, and soon the twain will meet.
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In philosophy, as in politics, the longest distance between two points is a straight line.
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Progress is the increasing control of the environment by life.
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Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
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If a man is fortunate he will, before he dies, gather up as much as he can of his civilized heritage and transmit it to his children.
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Fundamentalism is the triumph of Paul over Christ.
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Caesar's armies marched on vegetarian foods.
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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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There is no significant example in history, before our time, of a society successfully maintaining moral life without the aid of religion.
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History repeats itself in the large because human nature changes with geological leisureliness.
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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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