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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
Will Durant
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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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Every state begins in compulsion but the habits of obedience become the content of conscience, and soon every citizen thrills with loyalty to the flag. The citizen is right for however the state begins, it soon becomes an indispensable prop to order.
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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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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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The time when you need to do something is when no one else is willing to do it, when people are saying it can't be done.
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Progress is the domination of chaos by mind and purpose, of matter by form and will. It need not be continuous to be real.
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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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The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It's the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages.
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Rome remained great as long as she had enemies who forced her to unity, vision, and heroism. When she had overcome them all she flourished for a moment and then began to die.
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No man who is in a hurry is quite civilized.
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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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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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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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The individual succumbs, but he does not die if he has left something to mankind.
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India was the motherland of our race and Samskrit the mother of Europe 's languages...Mother India is in many ways the mother of us all.
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Liberty is a luxury of security the free individual is a product and a mark of civilization.
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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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When liberty destroys order the hunger for order will destroy liberty.
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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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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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Continue to express your dissent and your needs, but remember to remain civilized, for you will sorely miss civilization if it is sacrified in the turbulence of change.
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