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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.

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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
Mirage
Mirages
Expanding
Desert
Ignorance
Knowledge
Receding

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Science tells us how to heal and how to kill it reduces our death rate in retail and then kills us wholesale in war but only wisdom - desire coordinated in the light of all experience - can tell us when to heal and when to kill.
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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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Knowledge is power but only wisdom is liberty.
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Progress is the increasing control of the environment by life.
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The soul of a civilization is its religion, and it dies with its faith.
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Wherever men do things, other men will arise who will explain to them how things should be done.
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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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Freedom and equality are naturan born enemies.
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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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The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
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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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For you will sorely miss civilization if it is sacrificed in the turbulence of change.
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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos.
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A cat has a reputation to protect. If it had a halo, it would be worn cocked to one side.
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Read, think well of mankind, go to our libraries and rejoice.
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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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As long as there is poverty there will be gods.
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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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